audrey gidman

“my life held precariously in the seeing / hands of others”

Frank O’Hara

Adoration Svetlana was named Svetlana because she adored the light and when I say adore I mean truly the word adoration because we’ve lost what it means to be truly devoted to something. We say we love our families or our countries or our ideas but I know a man who fell in love with a little purple plum. He carried her in his pocket. He knew everything about that plum. And you might say, but what is there to know about a piece of fruit? And that’s why you can’t fall in love. That’s why the light has become just another reflection of your own sensibility. And you rip plums wide open and toss the beating hearts.

“And that’s why / you can’t fall in love.”

Luisa Muradyan

But sometimes it’s warm enough for the neighbors to stand in the field and brush out yer horses tail. She knows the sun slips through it. The hoarse is two-toned, losing a winter coat, the day like a world slipping through its own hands dusk will lead them out to a road that leads out of town, and she’ll teach it to walk this way, through shadow.

Jill Osier

People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. —David Lynch

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

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RIP David Lynch

How do y’all find the energy to “join the conversation” holy moly

friendly reminder: thinking before craft, remembering before craft, dwelling before craft, dreaming before craft, hydration before craft, grieving before craft, dinner before craft, peeling an orange before craft, horses before craft, rivers before craft, ghosts before craft, cheese before craft

Not all conversations worth having are happening in English.

—Mónica de la Torre, on the value of translation

listen, as an editor, an easy way to impress me is to write something I have never read before, preferably in the poem's opening lines, which ultimately culminates into something greater than the sum of the poem's individual parts, as if the poem has always been a part of me

Are folks still making starter packs? 🧐

thinking about this W.S. Merwin poem (“Rain Light”)

Today only a single poem. This one. So small. In the Middle Ages Angels frolicked On the head of a pin— Spacious as a ballroom. Have faith. The beloved approaches, Robed in radiance, Dressed in language, Eager to dance.

Gregory Orr on having faith 🎈

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