May 2011
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April 2011
1 post
July 2009
3 posts
love makes me feel lonely. yevgeny yevtuschenko explains why:
“When your face
appeared over my crumpled life
at first I understood
only the poverty of what I have.”
it’s this. and the beauty of love, the reason we spend so much of ourselves looking for it and trying to create it when we fail to find it, is the “at first”, the gradual illumination of all that we...
an extremely quiet “eight days a week”...
January 2009
2 posts
brooklyn anchorage
My resolution to post every day got destroyed in a not-very-long time but I didn’t have anything to say anyway.
this poet’s name is Lisa Jarnot. She is new to me and this is the first poem that I ever read by her. At first I thought that I didn’t like it. I read the poem in the morning, over cereal before my first class, but it turns out that genetics is mind-numbing and...
December 2008
1 post
2009?
There are five hours and nine minutes left until the new year and I have done almost nothing I had resolved to with this one. I’m happy with it anyway. It was a very good year. I was just thinking the other day about how the littlest things make me smile now, like the word “Thursday”, which seems like the most ordinary, run-of-the-mill weekday to me, but you know, I love my...