joe brainard on the process of writing i remember: “i feel very much like god writing the bible”—and he was completely right

John Yau ~ The fast full sky is not where we are swimming if we are swimming at all

In 3 short paragraphs (half the essay) Agamben destroys the charade of our “culture”.

How do you survive even one morning even one day With no mother to tell you Time to change —Kazim Ali

The world weeps. There are no tears To be found. It is deemed a miracle.

a gorgeous poem by Dennis Cooper ~ We would dream of hugging them, and crouch later in weird rooms, and come.

one of my favorite love poems ~ Denis Johnson and you can hear the stars unlocking themselves from the designs of God beneath the disintegrating orchestra of my black Chevrolet.

Sharon Olds ~ We have come to the end of questions

Matthew Rohrer 💙

Tracy K. Smith, 2011. Text here from Such Color: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf, 2021).

W.S. Merwin

Roberto Bolaño playing himself on paper so well:

zachary schomburg ~ You should say no scary.

a harrowing and timeless poem by W.S. Merwin ~ "And we will all enlist again"

Carl Sandburg from “Chicago Poems”

Helen Oswald. From: Learning Gravity (tall-lighthouse, 2010).

heather christle

Dermot Healy ~ The stones are singing in the blue hole.

W.S. Merwin ~ the entire day was a long evening in August