February 2012
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Son buenas gentes que viven,
laboran, pasan y sueñan,
y en un día como tantos...
– Antonio Machado, “He Pasado Muchos Caminos”
January 2012
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Think of the long trip home.
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?...
– Elizabeth Bishop, from “Questions of Travel”
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Better off alone. I’m going to write hard
and fast into you, moon,...
– “I’m Over the Moon” by Brenda Shaughnessy
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December 2011
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In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
And in the ripe...
– Federico Garcia Lorca (via amidthesound)
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction,...
– Wallace Stevens
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La mujer que elige llevar un vestido rojo hace una afirmación imponente: sabe...
– Vogue España
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November 2011
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2am reading poetry aloud to myself
reading:
“and the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouse and noise
of bell-buoys,
advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in
which dropped things are bound to sink––
in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
consciousness.”
and then saying:
“…
that is beautiful
as
fuck.”
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No defeat is made up entirely of defeat––since
the world it opens is always a...
– “The Descent”, William Carlos Williams
October 2011
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O tongue
licking
the sore on
her netherlip
O toppled belly
O passionate...
– William Carlos Williams, Spring and All