Daniel Sturniolo

Just take this here
piece of loose
and wobbly present

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A book cover. Two black birds of unknown species ponder a flash of light rising from horizon. One bird says "The Smallest Mistake We Call Human." The cover is lovely and everyone you know will like it.

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This fucking country We reiterate our commitment to regional stability and to the protection of civilian life is apparently the kind of thing you say when you are not committed to regional stability or the protection of civilian life. The US has been at war for 14,310 of my 14,310 days. Specifics matter and are hard to come by — fifty dead at a girl’s school in Tehran — but next week or next year you may not be able to say who did what when when the who never changes and the what always seems to be reiterating its commitment. The US has been at war for 14,310 of my 14,310 days.

The leaders of the free world just say things sometimes that make you think they’re tired of leading.

A book review disguised as a recruitment poster, sign me up!

The Starmen by Leigh Brackett. 1954, cover art by Mudge-Marriott. #booksky

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I feel space —
tangled and expecting

🙏Appreciate that & grateful for yours, too

This book review contemplates the consequences of time travel.

Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp. 1941, cover art by S. M. Adler and H. Lubalin. #booksky

I feel this new light
on an old presence

Yes, couldn’t resist. He told me he has a book of poetry with Thurston Moore in the works.

This book review speaks truth to our demons.

Fear by L. Ron Hubbard. 1957, cover art by Diane and Leo Dillon. #booksky

We are all experiences — everything

This secondhand experience,
let it flow — a broken, rattled
remnant of

A book review that answers the tough question, what the hell was she really doing?

Riding the Centipede by John Claude Smith. 2015, cover artist not attributed. #booksky

Ride the bewildered
footnotes of being

Protagonist viewpoint book reviews can be quite emotional!

The Great Mirror by Gerald G. Swan. 1952, cover artist not attributed. #booksky

We hear and mirror
these conjured up
moments of being

A book review disguised as a travel diary, brilliant!

Of All Possible Worlds by William Tenn. 1955, cover art by Richard Powers. #booksky

We are moving over
the world’s passable details —
the gathering possible

Psychiatric evaluation notes as book review? Very creative, no HIPPA violations noted.

An Earth Gone Mad by Roger Dee. 1954, cover art by Ed Valigursky. #booksky

Life is perhaps just this
inventory of what’s gone

A book review disguised as an astute observation of human nature — there are those who climb, others descend, and there are still others who are content to simply standby, waiting patiently.

Enter Craig Kennedy by Arthur B. Reeves. 1935, cover art not attributed. #booksky

The tug of every step
in this event waiting world

It’s a deliberate strategy he learned from Roy Cohn.

Thank you🙏

book review as travel directions, clever!

Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow by Miriam Allen deFord. 1971, cover art by Richard V. Corben. #booksky

Every sign is in the shape
of elsewhere

Alexander Calder, Flying Saucers, 1968. Gouache on paper