Dalton Day, from Flood-Letting
misty-mauve[transcript: Dinosaurs Smelled Magnolias
I am climbing a magnolia tree
& you are telling me
that magnolia trees existed
before bees did
which means that
dinosaurs smelled magnolias
& that maybe that
was the last scent
a dinosaur smelled
before it all went bad
& dark & bad &
when I am safely in the tree
you put your hands together
in the shape of a bowl
or a magnolia & that is
where I would like to sleep
& so I do & so I do.
end transcript.]
“I don’t mind being killed, but I don’t want them to touch me.”
— excerpt from Antigone by Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantiere)
A visual explanation of why stars fall on Earth. Details of The Augsburg Book of Miracles, an illuminated manuscript made in Augsburg in Germany in the 16th century, anonymous author-ess.
Exist slowly, softly like the trees
Ada Limón, Mowing // Shaun Tan, The Blue Cow // Shaun Tan, A Temple for Cows //Czesław Miłosz, Notes // Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea
LONGING
not that i want to be a god or a hero.
daphne (1948) pyke koch | czeslaw milosz, new and collected poems: 1931-2001
“I’m making myself. I’ll make myself until I reach the core.”
— Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life