‘Autumn’ “And yet there is Someone, whose hands/ infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke thanks to ⁦@bthmrsh⁩

Japanese has a word specific to light that filters through the leaves of trees. It's made up of three "Kanji" (Chinese characters): "tree," "leaking-through" or "escape," & "light" or "sun." English doesn't have an easy word for tree light, but C.S. Lewis called it "Godlight."

Today's episode of stupid things to say while standing behind bulletproof glass: Trump: "American does not have a gun problem."

Stephen Guy-Bray Website where singles are matched up with poems instead of other people.

― Mary Oliver, August

Yup

This was the after-lunch pick up I needed. Thank you.

Grace Paley:

We tend to consider work and the absence of work, or idleness, in human terms. But think of how untended fields play host to wildflowers, mosses, and shrubs—a metaphor for why we need to rethink what it really means to be idle, writes Kate J. Neville. thewalrus.ca/doing-nothing-…

With love and hope.

Everyone good?

In honor of one of the best, who just won the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 lifetime achievement honor named for the celebrated 20th century poet. #naomishihabnye

Eileen Myles:

Let America be America Again and release us from this embarrassing hellscape. #VoteKamala #langstonhughes

Solmaz Sharif

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. —Toni Morrison

Tonight I learned something I’ve always suspected. Most people will support a rapist over a woman.