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all's fair: there are so many kinds of love
Separation
By W. S. Merwin
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
-::-I started wearing perfume again just over a year ago, not daily, but on occasions I want to be remembered. Because the olfactory bulb in the brain has such an intimate relationship with the emotional ( Read more... ) -
half light in springtime
There are things sadder
than you and I. Some people
do not even touch.
Sonia Sanchez, Haiku.I've been trying to teach myself to write again, insisting on consecutive events, playing catch up from a month ago - the science conference, cansec, the whistler trip, and now Seattle; Sean Corey Adams, the emerald city comicon, friends, productivity, love ( Read more... ) -
from here to there, from me to you
Middle Aged Lovers
by Erica JongUnable to bear ( Read more... ) -
still deeply enchanted by this tribe
WIRED has a really nice new piece (with photos and a video of some of the clock restoration!) on one of my favourite inspiring secret-art collectives, UX, the dreamy Parisian group that specializes in fantastical heritage restorations and interstitial spaces:
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only the living speak
I still smell a bit like the witches, their blood and smoke and sharp perfume, like the sweat of the actor who held me more confidently than many of my serious past relationships, like murder and love and despair and the body swinging from the noose ( Read more... ) -
I am lost
Each Sound
by Dorianne LauxBeginnings are brutal, like this accident ( Read more... ) -
with me through victories and every time I stumble
We are all china barely mended,
clumsily glued together
just waiting
for the hot water and lemon
to seep through our seams.
- Toby BarlowHe walked from the apartment in the direction he always did, like a recording of the life we used to have, and with a pause and a wave, that achingly familiar wave, a chapter of my life slipped behind a corner and ( Read more... ) -
What would you do if you only had minutes to live?
Filmography 2011, by Gen Ip
- Films in order of appearance: http://filmography2011.tumblr.com/
- The Making of Filmography 2010: An Interview with Vancouver artist Gen Ip.
- Filmography 2010. (I cannot even begin to accurately unpack just how glad I am that she made another one this year ( Read more... )
- Films in order of appearance: http://filmography2011.tumblr.com/
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(He promised weeks ago that he would write a reply.)
Today's best telescopes could see the amount of light produced by Tokyo from as far away as the Kuiper Belt.I put the idea down, feeling like a fool as I walked down the path, dismissed from the large green house, and stepped under the arch of the overgrown hedge, a thick, living wall as solid as any made of stone. From the street, the house is ( Read more... )
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