December 2011
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2012
So, I had in mind to write a proper “about” page to close 2011 with style, but didn’t find the time to actually do it. I guess it’s a good thing I never make resolutions for the new year. Anyway, I’ll get on it as soon as I can (yeah, right).
In the meantime, have a great evening and don’t let it be the only turning point of the year, ok? Renew yourself every...
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Lines for Winter
Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for once to lie down...
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“Every lost moment is the life. It’s unknowable except to each of us, each...”
– Don DeLillo | Point Omega
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Night Dive
Down here, no light but what we carry with us. Everywhere we point our hands we scrawl color: bulging eyes, spines, teeth or clinging tentacles. At negative buoyancy, when heavy hands seem to grasp & pull us down, we let them, we don’t inflate our vests, but let the scrubbed cheeks of rocks slide past in amniotic calm. At sixty feet we douse our lights, cemented by the weight...
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“This is what he wanted, to feel the deep heat beating into his body, feel the...”
– Don DeLillo | Point Omega
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How to Continue
Oh there once was a woman and she kept a shop selling trinkets to tourists not far from a dock who came to see what life could be far back on the island. And it was always a party there always different but very nice New friends to give you advice or fall in love with you which is nice and each grew so perfectly from the other it was a marvel of poetry and irony And in this unsafe quarter much was...
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“Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be human forever? Consciousness is...”
– Don DeLillo | Point Omega
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Habeas Corpus
Knots, a thousand lights, in sheer dark, aimed at my window, tinny crystals, so mother dies in my sleep. The snow turns coarse, goes out. An axe sounds where I’d never heard an axe before. Breathing becomes dangerous. I can’t help it, making me her, even before I was born, her brain burning out patterns I follow like will o’ the wisps, sparks...
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“She told him she was standing a million miles outside the fact of whatever’s...”
– Don DeLillo | Point Omega
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Invictus
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years ...
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“We do this all the time, all of us, we become ourselves beneath the running...”
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Coda (excerpt)
Maybe it was jet lag, maybe not, but I was smoking in the kitchen: six, barely, still dark: beyond the panes, a mix of summer storm and autumn wind. I got back to you; have I got you back? What warmed me wasn’t coffee, it was our revivified combustion. In an hour, gray morning, but I’d gone back to my spot beside you, sleeping, where we’d stayed awake past exhaustion, talking, after, through the...
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