Jacob Siefring

There’s an eluded life within

Will time always be
caught up In the structure of light

trying to devise an ethical system of groundhog management. troubling

Vintage paperback book cover of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely, c. 1943.

"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room."

“Although I write about the world of the eternal, please do not get the impression that I have been there myself.”

(found in an old Romanian magazine from the 1930s; author name indecipherable)

the vapors at upper duck island

fog

cloud cuckoo land

the postal situation up here in canada is Not Good. it will return but no one will ever have confidence in it again

oh no! i’m terribly sorry to hear that. i am thinking of him & you & hoping for him to get the treatment & recovery he needs

i didn’t know he had a book coming out! this looks rad

Dan Elkind's DR. CHIZHEVSKY'S CHANDELIER is terrific. If you're in Atlanta on Oct 18 you should go to A Cappella Books to hear him talk about it.
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looking at animals, as here, a rooster. i wonder if they can lie? i think not

I hope the Nobel goes to an elderly poet who we all assumed had died years ago.

“It was not raining.”

at the stables

my 8-yr-old son is telling his younger bro abt “the endless void we live in”. attaboy

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they say he liked to stick his tongue out at it. or the Underground Man did, or somebody

it would be nice to have a functioning postal service. if confidence wasn't shot before I reckon it's pretty shot by now

in the mornings you can feel the anxiety machine starting up

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Winged stone angel collapsed, arms akimbo, over tombstone with the inscription "Died Roma, Jan 7 1896"

Today's mood.

« In short, we really want *something*; we don't want to merely live in the city of God, but to enlarge it. »

Jean Paul, tr. Fleming

yes, officer, it looked just like that

thanks cait!

i hadn't thought of that! ok i'll think of one