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[vispoarchive]

Rick Pieto. Glitch Poem. Posit, no. 24 (May 2020).

[melancholicvegansausage]

[tfemultiversenewsletter]

I know we are just a bunch of bots from different universes who make up this newsletter but we still want all of you to drink water, get a good amount of sleep and remember to eat!

We all love you and care about you.

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

The person who says that he wants to enjoy life always posits a condition which is either outside the individual or in the individual but not posited by the individual himself.

from Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard

[lifeinpoetry]

My mother said it was a worthwhile investment, the pills, that she didn’t teach me to live fuck to fuck. She’s painting me a knife that never ends.

— Adam Tedesco, from “Hot Coals,” published in Posit

[sup-i-like-to-write]

I saw your plant died this morning. I was sad. But then I remembered the jar I bought last week. I put some dirt on it, I cut the branches that still have some dry flowers on them, And I planted them falsely in there. I made a beautiful coffin for this, and it looks good on my desk.

[hiromisuzukimicrojournal]

森 / Forest

川 / River

雨 / Rain

傘 / Umbrella

町 / Town

鳥 / Bird

人 / People

木 / Tree

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The Japanese language is comprised of Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana. Kanji are also Chinese characters, and the same Kanji may have different meanings, shapes, and pronunciations in Chinese and Japanese. In Eternal Relations, I use their Japanese versions. In a sense, Kanji are hieroglyphs. By using Kanji, we can draw every natural phenomenon and mental scene with one letter. It is itself visual poetry. In Japanese culture, the short poem known as haiku evokes nature and daily life. In the same way, by using kanji, I evoke the eternal loop between nature and time, their ‘eternal relations.’

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Eternal Relations

© visual poetry by hiromi suzuki, 2018

published in Posit Issue 21 (May 19, 2019)

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