Friday, August 4, 2023

too old for visions I must settle for dreams


Above, the sunset from two nights ago at Seal Cove, below the moonrise same night from house in Seal Cove


Lots of writing in Maine, all spectulation, no synthesis as yet. Painting saves writing, painting dooms writing. No plans beyond no plans, defeating the no-plan plan. Song below, reminder that the best New Pornographers' song is a Bejar song. Links starting to mildew in grid box from past week or two, here:

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{ feuilleton }'sUNHEARD MELODIES
A Loss of Problems: on Amis, and others
I don't know if these are ten Best Poems of the Past Ten Years but they're good, and I vouch for Carson, Mayer, Lauterbach, and Prikryl
{ feuilleton }'s (this week's, the above is last week's)
Notes on Tone: continual crisis and American flatness
Dune PeninsulaWhy Barbie must be punished
Technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
Rest in Peace, Keith WaldropApparatus



DIMINISHED GALLERIES

Keith Waldrop

too old for
vision I must
settle for dreams
 
specific forms
of cloud
 
(body surrounded by
body)
 
every sensation con-
ceals a dream
 
fresco
 
figurine
 
sculpture in
low relief
 
(a motor halo a
mental blue)
 
cleft in the
logical space
 
(wilderness or
wrack)
 
we have lived
on a ladder to
the window of a
room to which
the key is lost
 
(words lost
in the music)

2 comments:

  1. 1/william gibson retweeted laurie garrett's tweet of this:

    We're all screwed
    So don't tell us that
    We can imagine a healthy planet
    Because at the end of the day
    It's too late to fix the climate crisis
    And we refuse to believe
    We need to demand a livable future
    Because we don't have a choice

    Now read this bottom up


    2/the outdoor clothing and related products retailer which has used this message in its advertising has been involved in controversy

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  2. over the weekend spouse and self discovered a documentary science series on amazon prime - made in france in 2013 - "the voyage of the continents"

    >>This extraordinary series is a sweeping account of the rise of Earth's continents. They are the product of a grand waltz of plate tectonics and the continual evolution of Earth's crust. As landmasses assemble and separate, they fuel volcanoes and spark earthquakes, building mountains and tearing valleys. We see the Earth, eons in the making, through the eyes of geologists and other scientists.<<

    the scale of space and time, and the variety of lifeforms, extinct and extant, in this series is helpful to me as i try to move my mind from collapse-awareness to collapse-acceptance - the human experiment was remarkable, but all things must pass - as kate bush sang, "life is sad - and so is love"

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