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Good Blue Clay
Tanka, by Ono No Oyu The city of Nara of good blue clay glows like a blooming flower, now at its prime Source: Ono No Oyu. “Tanka.” From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, edited by Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987, p. 43. Photo: Church…
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An Urge to Flex Everything
‘Solidus’ by Ron Padgett Why am I making myselfdo and be things that I don’t really want to?Because I have an idea of what I should be doing and/orI don’t have an idea of what I really want to be and/or do.And/or both. I seem to be very and/or,with an urge to flex everything until…
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The Fiction of Time Destroyed
‘Anticipation of Love’ by Jorge Luis Borges Neither the intimacy of your look, your brow fair as a feast day,nor the favor of your body, still mysterious, reserved, and childlike,nor what comes to me of your life, settling in words or silence,will be so mysterious a giftas the sight of your sleep, enfoldedin the vigil…
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Dream 06012013
I woke, feeling of particularly base moral character, because of this dream I had. The dream was built upon a typically gauche bacchanal at a filmic hivelike Midwestern frat house, a free Chinese buffet erected on the street outside operated by presumably a crosstown rival frat, the unacceptable total loss of some unreplaceable button down-type…
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