It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall
“It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,The dark threw its patches down upon me also,The best I had done seem’d to me […]
poetry
Myxomatosis
Myxomatosis Caught in the center of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed? You […]
O master of my breath
“O master of my breath, create a man around these nostrils, and gather my heart toward the gravity of your name”. – Leonard Cohen, Book […]
Tyranny of the human face
I’ve recently been reading Baudelaire. The idea of redemption through one’s art in his prose poem “At One O’Clock in the Morning” resonated with me, […]
A rider of storms
The Albatross Sometimes, to entertain themselves, the men of the crew Lure upon deck an unlucky albatross, one of those vast Birds of the sea […]
Love is so short, forgetting is so long
Below is a poem by Pablo Neruda about losing love, which I’ve just stumbled upon. I have not recently lost love, as one might surmise from the thread of […]
Never saw the morning ’til I stayed up all night
Good lyric about not appreciating something until it’s gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgwZW8-JhIs “San Diego Serenade” by Tom Waits I never saw the morning ’til I stayed up all […]
An ingenious plan hatched while drunk
A great article at Quartz, “There are hundreds of positive emotions that have no direct English translation“. Examples given in the article: Ah-un (Japanese): Unspoken […]
Why is everybody looking at me like there’s something fundamentally wrong?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuqXEZT0pxY] Palimpsest – Bill Callahan Winter weather is not my soul But the biding for spring… Why is everybody looking at me Like there’s something […]
