as if islands were not the lost children of one great continent
angelgazing pointed this poem out to me and I was like, "YES. AWESOME." I can't even pick out a favorite line because there are so many.
Monet Refuses the Operation
Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don't see,
to learn that the line I called the horizon
does not exist and sky and water,
so long apart, are the same state of being.
Fifty-four years before I could see
Rouen cathedral is built
of parallel shafts of sun,
and now you want to restore
my youthful errors: fixed
notions of top and bottom,
the illusion of three-dimensional space,
wisteria separate
from the bridge it covers.
What can I say to convince you
the Houses of Parliament dissolves
night after night to become
the fluid dream of the Thames?
I will not return to a universe
of objects that don't know each other,
as if islands were not the lost children
of one great continent. The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
becomes water, lilies on water,
above and below water,
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
and white and cerulean lamps,
small fists passing sunlight
so quickly to one another
that it would take long, streaming hair
inside my brush to catch it.
To paint the speed of light!
Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
burn to mix with air
and change our bones, skin, clothes
to gases. Doctor,
if only you could see
how heaven pulls earth into its arms
and how infinitely the heart expands
to claim this world, blue vapor without end.
~Lisel Mueller
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Last night, I dreamt I was watching an ALL NEW, ALL MUSICAL episode of The Middleman. When I woke up, I was so sad it wasn't real.
Which reminds me - you know that bit in the pilot where Wendy and MM have this exchange:
Wendy: Did you mean what you said? That if there's one thing you hate more than scientists trying to take over the world, it's scientists who twist innocent primates with computer-enhanced mind control to live out their sick and perverted fantasies of criminal power?
The Middleman: Why would I lie about that?
Wendy: It's just a very specific thing to hate.
The Middleman: Self-knowledge is the gateway to freedom.
I totally want the crossover with Winter Soldier where MM teams up with Bucky and Natasha to fight mind controlled gun wielding gorillas. You KNOW it would be awesome. And it would explain MM's very specific hate! You should totally write that for me.
Speaking of Winter Soldier, #4 came out yesterday. I love how snarky Bucky is with Doom. He's just like, "dear god, not only do I have to put up with this jerkwad, I actually have to try to save him from his own megalomania." I also loved that his gun is keyed to him so no one else can use it against him. Very clever.
What I really want is an issue where Bucky and Natasha laze around in bed having sex and banter. You think Brubaker's got something like that cooking for an upcoming issue?
Also, I don't think I like the new reader from comixology - it does that thing where it zooms in on each panel in the order you're meant to read them rather than just letting you see the whole page and studying it as you wish. Like, I get that I am bad at parsing the art, but I don't need a program to tell me the order to read the panels.
As an aside, it looks like all of Jaime Reyes' original Blue Beetle run is now available digitally. If you haven't read it, I would highly, highly recommend it.
I didn't watch the livestream of the Avengers premiere last night, but I enjoyed all the cast pics etc. that appeared on tumblr. I am going to have to either stay off tumblr or t.s. avengers soon to avoid being spoiled. Sigh. My life, so hard.
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Rangers v. Senators tonight! I am excited! I need them to go deep into the playoffs to distract from the unending cavalcade of calamity that is the Mets.
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