the haze loop

* so slow a movie your heart will break

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a frame from Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin, which is quite the spectacular movie. this image of a small resin Buddha under the rain calls for a pause.

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Margaret Atwood, One More Garden, from her (1981) True Stories. the last stanza is tattoo material. fuck the future indeed.

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Denise Duhamel, A Nap On The Afternoon of My 39th Birthday. i wasn't able to trace where this text first appeared. the scan up above is from David Lehman's anthology Great American Prose Poems.

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Linda Pastan, from An Early Afterlife, as photographed by Peege

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Ada Limón, from Sharks in the Rivers

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i don't remember where i did read about this poem. maybe it was Rachel Zucker teaching it in one of hers? anyway: there's a nice piece by Denise Duhamel here; of course, I still had a long way to go

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Bianca Stone from her latest What Is Otherwise Infinite. Bianca just won the Vermont Book Award

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Old Flame by Lewis Warsh from Elixir. somehow, because there's only the present / like a movie played backwards / with a cast of thousands / hanging on for dear life is one of the most poignant images ever

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a frame from Paul Kalkbrenner playing his version of Feed your head at Tomorrowland in 2018

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Carrie Shipers, MANAGEMENT RESCINDS A SHORT-LIVED POLICY

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CA Conrad, from Ecodeviance - Somatics for the future wilderness

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and also: this is time. life passing

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Reversible Poem in Dishwater, by Emily Lee Luan (picture by Megan Pinto). see also: Notes On Reversing