Finished reading: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 📚
Finished reading: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 📚
Finished Listening: The Crucible by Arthur Miller 📚🎧
This version from L.A. Theatre Works starring Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach is amazing.
Now I want to watch the Daniel Day-Lewis movie.
Eerie East Anglia by Edward Parnell
Few people can resist the temptation to try a little amateur research in a department quite outside their own, if only for the satisfaction of showing how successful they would have been had they only taken it up seriously.
Awake he remained, in any case, long enough to fancy (as I am afraid I often do myself under such conditions) that he was the victim of all manner of fatal disorders:
Its eyes made day of the road fifty yards ahead, and the romance of night was fairyland round us.
Those who turn the instruments of science upon nature will always be in danger of seeing more than they looked for.
She has that happiest of tricks—without which paradise will be dull indeed—the trick of surprise.
If people waited for the approval of relatives before marrying, the world would be depopulated in a generation.
None of us would ever fall in love in English. We would be safe from that.
Finished reading: Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü 📚
In the old days, you could see through the old wooden floorboards to the sea. Now there are the chandeliers, nylon curtains, formica tables, and concrete floors that speak of a debased culture.
In a few hours, a new day will begin. Everyone will live that day in their own way.
Finished reading: between satellites by Dave Read 📓
autumn bullets a duck without encryption
Finished reading: Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil 📚
Monsters don’t incarnate. They regress.
Finished reading: The Taco Stand at the Edge of the Woods by Katherine Montalto 📓
Finished reading: Outgrowth by Sonia Feldman 📝
When I’m working with the flowers, a window in my mind flings open. My thoughts, like springtime animals, bound through the aperture and into the gaping distance. Something like relief.
Finished reading: Schizophrene by Bhanu Kapil 📚
Finished reading: Macbeth by William Shakespeare 📚
Finished reading: Orpheus in the Underpass by Gabriel Rosenstock 📚
no smell of earth
of grapes or honey…
stale piss
The history of haiku shows us that the genre becomes stale, irrelevant, uninspiring and repetitive when it becomes still. It must be on the move, as Basho, Issa and Santoka once were. They are still moving, those haiku masters, constantly and in an unpredictable fashion.
Finished reading: Says The Rose by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz 📚
pounding on the echo chamber door my no to your yes
into June’s hymn I recast your death
Finally watched Nosferatu 🍿
Finished reading: Leaves in the Wind by Foster Jewell 📚
Nearing the mountains –
yesterday, and still today…
tomorrow —
From vanishing world
a last coyote call.
The final silence.
Not the buzzard
so much as his shadow…
circling around me now…
Finished reading: As Is by Elmedin Kadric 📚
Haiku / minimal poetry chapbook
Three Ghost Stories: 1944–48 by Bhanu Kapil 👻
At the intersection of poetry and short story
Finished reading: The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Or, After the Outing by Edward Gorey 📚
Finished reading: Haunted Castles by Ray Russell 📚🎃
Finished reading: The Witches by Roald Dahl 📚 🎃
Finished reading: Bird Snow On Hard Tracks : After Nelson Ball by Stuart Ross 📚
Owls hear a field of perfect white fog
Owls hear a previously cold winter sunset
Finished reading: Do Grow by Alice Holden 📚
by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Did childhood habits die hard—or not die at all?
That’s the trouble with habits. They tend to outlive their usefulness
How many times have you wondered how some especially self-destructive individual managed to survive adolescence? It’s a valid concern for humanity as well as for individual human beings.
And a reading list for those that want to dive down the rabbit hole of this question: “Huntington’s gene, for instance, can so greatly change our lives—what we can do, what we can become—then what are we? What, indeed?”
Finished reading: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Finished reading: Bits and Bobs by Ryan Stearne 📚
displaced essence of work. An artifact of the prosperity we collectively thought perpetual. I was jealous that they had that. My office was intact and my documents filed neatly away shit free.