January 2012
31 posts
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emily dickinson to the rescue.
lindseyannebaker:
At a local poetry reading tonight, one of the readers kept making reference to his “chest brain.” I don’t know what that is, but it kept making me think of Michael Dickman’s “Brain Death” or otherwise oft-mentioned brains. And then I just wanted to go read Michael Dickman.
Standing in her house today all I could think of was whether she took a shit every
morning
or...
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“Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you will still have your...”
– Catherynne M. Valente (The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making)
“I’m not lost, because I haven’t any idea where to go that I might get lost on...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making (via relatedworlds)
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There are bats all dissolving in a row, oh,
it-is-only-skin:
into the wishy-washy dark that cannot let go. And I cannot let go, so I thank the Lord and I thank His sword, though it be mincing up the morning, slightly bored. Oh, morning without warning like a hole. And I watch you go. There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road. There are some dragons who were built to have and hold. And some machines are dropped from great...
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“Suddenly to remember: the ancient Assyrians carved words into every surface,...”
–
Dan Beachy-Quick, “A January Notebook” (Evening Will Come, April 2011)
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“All of it a blessing. The being there. Being alive then.
Like a giant bell...”
–
Jack Gilbert, from “Burma” (Refusing Heaven, Knopf, 2005)
December 2011
40 posts
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Not Getting Closer | Jack Gilbert
Walking in the dark streets of Seoul under the almost full moon. Lost for the last two hours. Finishing a loaf of bread and worried about the curfew. I have not spoken for three days and I am thinking, “Why not just settle for love? Why not just settle for love instead?”
“I do so love my witches and wicked queens. I find myself drawn to feminine...”
– Catherynne M. Valente (from her website FAQ)
(via baroquemirrors)
This is a bad year for dictators.
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Catherynne M. Valente sums up everything I have... →
But as I read about the tiny Brontes and their twelve wooden soldiers and their little magazine and newspaper and grand nations of their minds (even if Glass Town makes me a little uncomfortable as our small colonizers set their magical adventures in Darkest Africa) I am filled with longing.
… I want to have had that. I want to have had a close little circle who made up elaborate, endless...
“When I’m at work on a story, I never compose paragraphically. I write...”
– oh, Gary Lutz. (via meaghano)
Parts, pieces, flickery fragments.
(via victoriouswanderer)
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I have read the right books to interpret your...
Peach, Plum, Pear on the harp. What I’d give to see her live again.
“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘It hurts to...”
– Andrea Gibson (via rabbitinthemoon)