consonantsandvowels

MAY 18, 2013 2:08PM

the weather inside

   photo by mitch dobrowner

  "Every time you wish the sky was something happening to your heart,

you lose twice." — Olena Kalytiak Davis

berndnaut-smilde-nimbus-ii  

  

ricochet      

boomerang -
ing boredom

tedium of lists of
shoulds and shouldn'ts

back and forthi… Read full post »
MAY 9, 2013 10:07PM

time and place

   six suns by Donald MacMillen

  “Six Suns,” a timelapse photo of an Arctic day, taken by Donald MacMillan on the Crocker Land Expedition from 1913-1917.

 

When you live a long time in a place it ceases to be a grid on a map or interconnected streets, you come to know… Read full post »

MAY 1, 2013 9:01PM

Afternoon of a Non

 

 

 

 

 

It seems new: the phosphoresce-ing  green,
the insistent glare  - even the light and air turned chartreuse,
like the jaundiced blossom of a fading bruise,
like absinthe, like neon absence,
like drowning in anti-freeze,
like bile.

 

 

 

 

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APRIL 30, 2013 11:09PM

making a big pink moon

 

 

 

It's a confusion of Logos and Legos®

the architecture of desire  how

poetic - my love for the big pink moon

winches it across the dark unknown sky.

 

 

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by
 
James Tate
 
APRIL 16, 2013 11:24PM

grasshoppers and peaches

 

 

Poetry is not the truth, it is a resurrection of presences.

-Octavio Paz

 

 

 

The something else under the sun lies in deep shade

 

                         &nb… Read full post »

APRIL 1, 2013 7:55PM

fool

 

 

Oh, please - as if 

my foolishness were confined to a single April day,

as if the musty air in the room could be released by flinging

open the windows to the almost here air of Spring eternally as if

the mildewy reminder isn't seeping through the plaster… Read full post »

MARCH 11, 2013 8:14PM

compare and contrast

 

 

 

 

everything compares with 

the huge little life  no altar

or joss stick ash scent wafting away

from the smoke dinge settled on some idol

no elaborate howdah 

nor bouncing to the heavy steps of a  graffiti'd eminence grise

breathing in

sweet stench of… Read full post »

JANUARY 21, 2013 12:59PM

i don't want to

 

 
 
merry little christmas
 
I haven't taken down the tree.  I don't want to.  It isn't laziness  - I'm just not ready to say goodbye to the glow in the night and the piney scent when I enter the door.  Before it's a heap of dry
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JANUARY 2, 2013 3:39AM

some say ice

 

 

Oh, Christ.  We're still here,  left

like anxious Adventists inspecting

the loose shingles of our leaky hope,

our mundanely regular, slow and steady extinction,

the revelatory glare of our impatient despair.

 

I thought it would be ice -

the brakes gave out on the slick r… Read full post »

OCTOBER 30, 2012 12:10PM

nocturne

 

 

 


The buddha’s doppelganger sneers
while a paralyzed Kali glares, but wait. Here

in the time before awkward bargaining gambits
or axiomatic surrender,
drumbeat tick of time, heartbeat of now,
the parallax present shifts.

Elsewhere, somewhere,  the numbers climb:
election polls,… Read full post »

OCTOBER 8, 2012 1:08PM

and all the days of

 

The airy sky has taken its place leaning against
the wall.
It is like a prayer to what is empty.
And what is empty turns its face to us
and whispers:
‘I am not empty, I am open.’
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OCTOBER 2, 2012 9:17PM

seance for the living

 

                 
 Among the Rocks


Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth,
      This autumn morning! How he sets his bones
To bask i’ the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet
For the
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JULY 3, 2012 5:40PM

égarements

metro-guimard

 The girl was studying in Paris.  Mostly she studied the effect of her figure-gripping black turtleneck on dissolute Frenchmen of a certain age who soon discovered, despite her diffident wiles tied in a ribbon of quasi-innocence,  their louche charms were vapor to the

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JULY 1, 2012 4:02PM

brief storm

 

 

 

 When the first drops crash the ground
the dry dust leaps up in lust
  to meet the wet blessing,
what’s cracked and parched gulps
 from the spilled thimble sky.
  The grass stays stiff and yellow
 but for a while remembers what it was
to be green.

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JUNE 27, 2012 12:11PM

note to self

 

 

 
 
727 Regent Place, Memphis

 

Here’s what not to do when you see on her death certificate the home address of that ancestral grandmother on your mother’s paternal side (the side that abandoned your mother when she was a year old):  do not google 727 Regent Pl., Memphis… Read full post »

JUNE 24, 2012 11:06PM

wordless diary

 
 
 
 
leonid_tishkov_i_boris_bendikov- from the private moon series  
 
JUNE 23, 2012 11:09AM

wordless diary

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JUNE 21, 2012 2:37PM

Ladies and tricycles...

 

 

gedney
  William Gale Gedney, Girl standing on desk in courtyard, performing for a seated girl, ca. 1955 

 

William Gedney Photographs and Writings
Duke University David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney

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JUNE 20, 2012 10:53AM

wordless diary

 

 

 

paris 129

 

 

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JUNE 19, 2012 9:12AM

wordless diary

 

 

 

 

laszlohoholy-nagysanstitre1930

 

 

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JUNE 18, 2012 12:11PM

word, yō

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
memento mori
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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JUNE 17, 2012 6:42PM

wordless diary

 

 

 

 

 

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JUNE 16, 2012 11:39AM

wordless diary

 

 

 

my home is my castle

 

 

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JUNE 15, 2012 12:34PM

wordless diary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JUNE 14, 2012 11:56PM

wordless diary

 

 

georges braque

 

 

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