Friday, January 27, 2023
Reading Wallace Stevens: The Palm at the End of the Mind
I.
Look in the terrible mirror of the sky.
Oh, bend against the invisible and lean
To symbols of descending night; and search
The glare of revelations going by!
Dreaming feet
Mythy mind
Music is feeling, not sound
In witching chords.
Whispered refrains
Like willows swept by rain.
Death is the mother of beauty; from her,
Alone, comes fulfilment to our dreams
And our desires.
She searched
The touch of springs,
And found
Concealed imaginings.
She sighed,
For so much melody.
Upon the bank, she stood
In the cool
Of spent emotions.
She felt, among the leaves,
The dew
Of old devotions.
Death is the mother of beauty, mystical.
Beauty is momentary in the mind--
The fitful tracing of a portal;
In the flesh, immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminable flowing.
The sun ... sets ... pacing
Death, ... knowing
Grieves.
Opening roses
The mind supposes
Floating colors;
Closes.
Noon a turning--
a Burning
a Yearning
For endless summer.
Changing autumn mellows
Moons glance
When night comes
Coloring
The cry of peacocks.
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing.
And it was going to snow.
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes.
I was of three minds:
Three blackbirds
In a tree.
I know a blackbird
Is involved
In what I know.
Friday, January 13, 2023
Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow...
https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-novel-Gabrielle-Zevin/dp/0593321200/ref=asc_df_0593321200?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80058314545423&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583657839528169&psc=1
So many things I enjoyed while reading...
learned about William Morris design known as "the Strawberry Thief."
and some cool quotes to give you a taste 🍓...
"Love is both a constant and a variant at the same time."
"Dead was OK."
"You can watch if you want. I'm going to play until the end of this life."
"There is no purity in art."
And discovered:
Tsuguharu Foujita, artist
and
Terry Riley, composer
https://youtu.be/aX96z7AuICs
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