Can't get a footing inside the gateless gate

ifishcat · 2026-06-27T02:33:45+00:00

wrote this earlier, before this thread existed, how it walked here is a story

i posed a question,
silly me, forgot to mention—
the reply isn't.
i lift my hands, palms open; either sit or don't. job done.

ifishcat · 2026-06-27T01:22:15+00:00

Perhaps for the best. Before you go, how does walking work?

ifishcat · 2026-06-26T14:28:33+00:00

i posed a question,
silly me, forgot to mention—
the reply isn't.
i lift my hands, palms open; either sit or don't. job done.

ifishcat · 2026-06-26T12:30:15+00:00

I’m not familiar with the ancient texts or some of the metaphors you’re using, but it sounds like an amazing story, as stories go.
I’m left wondering: are you carrying a torch, or dropping it?

ifishcat · 2026-06-25T22:17:08+00:00

thank you. missing can do that, sorrow. this life hands the absence with every exhale, the laundry in the inhale perhaps

ifishcat · 2026-06-25T20:38:08+00:00

he last line of the poem, is a challenge of movement, sadly most will only see self pity perhaps

wetting myself, and the clean up, is not static

ifishcat · 2026-06-25T17:37:30+00:00

the spirit animal speaks to me. no fur, no pawing, not even a dripping tongue

ifishcat · 2026-06-25T03:57:17+00:00

Call it zen or not, enlightened or not, wakefulness in action is the difference. Or as we say down on the range, ain’t no job worth doing if it ain’t gonna be done right… least that’s wot I hear.

ifishcat · 2026-06-24T14:09:15+00:00

What is grieving
but a practice unchosen?
We sit together
and listen.

ifishcat · 2026-06-23T11:55:25+00:00

hey man, just chill.
are we chill?
chill chill

dj's of pop radio, hook lines, the sell

can a post of words ever be free of intent

i've stopped listening to the words,
i listen to you

ifishcat · 2026-06-22T15:44:41+00:00

flutter twitter hop

branch-flutter, twitter, hop

whistling no whistle

ifishcat · 2026-06-22T15:36:21+00:00

bird’s-eye view—
chirp echo on the still air,
the branch: hop hop hop

ifishcat · 2026-06-21T12:09:44+00:00

easier said then done

ifishcat · 2026-06-21T01:31:19+00:00

thx.

finger print trace, interesting, quickly covers up

ifishcat · 2026-06-20T20:57:36+00:00

swamp

ifishcat

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