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“Living It Up” • The bed is on fire, and are you laughing? • You leave the bed and leave me without thought. • The springs want to embrace each other but they’re afraid if they break • their spiral, they will never be able to hold anyone. • I wish you would let me know how difficult it is to love me. • Then I would know you love me beneath all that difficulty. • You are tending not only to me, you tell me, but to your other child—the air, • and air puts his feet in my slippers, and air scrubs his teeth on my brush, • and we must learn to share a bed, we must learn to share a body. • The money is running out. We will have to split one needle • this winter—one end for me, one end for air.” ************ The difference between Max Ritvo and most of the old and dying poets scrawling their mark on the wall whom I’ve been reading, is that Max was young and he was dying of a terminal disease. And yet his verse is not tainted with regret or elegy. ************ On the contrary, it feels to me as if he was always speaking detached from himself, while fully immersed. I love his life and energy. His turns of phrase, his dark humor, the way he dismisses it all. ************ “I wish you would let me know how difficult it is to love me. Then I would know you love me beneath all that difficulty.” Almost a ballad, almost a lyric, there is sadness but I feel there is more joy hanging on to his every last word. ************ #books #poetry #literature #MaxRitvo #igreads #igbooks #instabooks #instareads #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagramsf #booklove #booknerd #bookporn #bookgram

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Right of the vanishing point. #architecture #sanfrancisco (at Flood Building)

#sanfrancisco #architecture

So I finally did it. Bought my first books of literature here in San Francisco. While I still have crazy plans to have my library be sent from home across the seas (my definition of “homesickness”), I may just be growing my own collection here in the US. As I said, this is my way to keep my sanity. To start new habits, to lead a new life. Who knows, I can have different sets of books in different places on the planet? ************ “I fell asleep in my bed and woke up under the keel. At four o’clock in the morning when life’s picked-clean bones mingle together coldly. I fell asleep among the swallows and woke up among eagles.” (From “Winter’s Formulas”) ************ #books #poetry #literature #TomasTranstromer #Sweden #NobelPrize #NobelPrizeInLiterature #igreads #igbooks #instabooks #instareads #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagramsf #booklove #booknerd #bookporn #bookgram