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◾And I sit here alone and far from you and it’s night and I’m reflecting on everything all around me and I am thinking of you. I saw it in your eyes, in your love, you too are swinging towards the depths of your own being in longer and longer circles. I saw happiness and pain in your eyes and reflections of the paradises lost and regained and lost again, that terrible loneliness and happiness, yes, and I reflect upon this and I think about you.

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania — Jonas Mekas, 1972

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-I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

With the voice of the fieldmouse you squeak up to me, a sharp clip, you bite your way through my shirt to the skin, a cloth, you slide across my mouth midway through the words I address to you, shadow, to give you weight.

[artbookdap]

TODAY, Sunday, January 26 at 3 PM, Anthology Film Archives presents the New York City launch of Jonas Mekas's 'I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1950–1969, Volume 1,' published by Spector Books. A group of special guests will read from the diaries, including poet and writer Vyt Bakaitis, who worked with Mekas on his seminal book 'I Had Nowhere to Go'; Florence and Ken Jacobs, filmmakers and colleagues for many years; filmmaker Chuck Smith; and others. Introduced by editor Anne König, the reading will precede a screenings of Anthology’s new restoration of Mekas’s first feature film, 'Guns of the Trees' (1961). @jonas.mekas @anthologyfilmarchives @spectorbooks @ffaabbiiaannbbrreemmeerr @pascalstorz @brooklynrail #gunsofthetrees #jonasmekasfilms #jonasmekasdiaries #newyork @artbook #chucksmith #vytbakaitis https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ya5JkJ0A-/?igshid=xcmi13g60363