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Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from The Most Foreign Country; “I am…”

[Text ID: “my wings? / two rotting petals”]

#words #alejandra pizarnik

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Harry Grundy

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So many days like flaring cinders in an uncle's bleak periphery, like duets in hawthorn shade or conspiratorial archeology. We examined the samples. We yanked the dumbwaiter's rope. No one spoke of cirrus clouds or uncouth implements unleashed upon the meadow. There was much to do. The sagebrush swayed. What did Alice say to Edgar? It wasn't time to yield but to focus.

— Christopher Brean Murray, from 'The Map'.

#words #christopher brean murray

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

#words #mahmoud darwish

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Trichome stain of rockfish gill section, @histoqueenofhearts on Instagram.

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And I’m not sorry you’re here and in front of me and breathing and eating. If you’re Bacchus, where’s my wine? Where were you when I was naked, offering a thousand dinners in my tiny kitchen? How’s my birthday lamb? Oh, brutal. Delicious.

— Analicia Sotelo, from 'Apologia over Marinated Lamb'.

#words #analicia sotelo

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— John Green, from "The Anthropocene Reviewed".

#john green #words #the anthropocene reviewed

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Kathakali performers applying stage makeup.

#objects of interest #kerala #india

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Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking, C.T. Salazar

#c.t. salazar #words

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“Her ears tune down to the lowest frequencies. The tree is saying things, in words before words. It says: Sun and water are questions endlessly worth answering. It says: A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch. It says: Every piece of earth needs a new way to grip it. There are more ways to branch than any cedar pencil will ever find. A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still. The woman does exactly that. Signals rain down around her like seeds.

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All the ways you imagine us—bewitched mangroves up on stilts, a nutmeg’s inverted spade, gnarled baja elephant trunks, the straight-up missile of a sal—are always amputations. Your kind never sees us whole. You miss the half of it, and more. There’s always as much belowground as above.”

— Richard Powers, from "The Overstory".

#richard powers #words

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by Japanese artist Narumi Yasuhara

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ada, vladimir nabokov

#words #vladimir nabokov

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Blues to You. I have folded my sorrows like fitted bedsheets: fraying elastic, the faint scent of an ex-lover’s detergent and my palms holding the creases against my skin, a way to live into them. I have folded. My sorrows don’t ask for any precision other than my hands against their hands mountains— of holding a mountain of folds smoothed out for the moon and the impossible season Mars makes of it. 

— Andrea Blancas Beltran, from 'Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays'.

#words #andrea blancas beltran

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"Inès Longevial’s intimate portraiture utilizes impressionistic hues in thickly brushed planes of interlocking color, imbuing her close-cropped views of feminine sitters with a dreamlike pallor. Through her tightly cropped renderings of women positioned together or in isolation, Longevial challenges the objectification of femininity in both art history and popular media and celebrates beauty in all forms."

double feet by inès longevial, 2021, oil on linen canvas, 41 × 33 centimeters

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— Vinda Karandikar, 'The Wheel'.

#words #vinda karandikar

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In the women’s compartment of a Bombay local we search for no personal epiphanies. Like metal licked by relentless acetylene we are welded – dreams, disasters, germs, destinies, flesh and organza, odours and ovaries. A thousand-limbed million-tongued, multi-spoused Kali on wheels.

When I descend I could choose to dice carrots or a lover. I postpone the latter.

— Arundhathi Subramaniam, '5.46, Andheri Local'.

#words #arundhathi subramaniam

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