In Trance Notebooks #22, Wayne Koestenbaum presents journals as “a higher pitch of ceremony, an occasion for intensified, unmoored consciousness.”

An excerpt from Wayne Koestenbaum’s Trance Notebooks #22 [ultramarine has a pocky charisma]:

sons as sticks to be
proud of, even from
afar

she abandoned

me while playing harp

we sing because we hold
ourselves secret
resources apart
from imagined drunken
victories

suddenly
sentimental we