Looking toward Morne Tranchant, 1927

Image from page 33 of “Bulletin – United States National Museum” (1877)

Smithsonian Institution

United States National Museum

Buttetin 155

THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

by

ALEXANDER WETMORE

Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

AND

BRADSHAW H. SWALES

Honorary Assistant Curator of Birds United States National Museum

January 27, 1931

AG2025_1155545a or a soldierly fixity of mind


Flattery, deference, smiles, ringing laughter, affectionate greetings were the order of the day.

the quality of their unjudging listening, granted tacit forgiveness,

a soldierly fixity of mind

a series of spastic clumsy gymnastic movements that were somehow accusatory,

He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.

(GS)

spaces where time flickers

Zura Lagarde, The Silent Pulse Beneath Still Stone, Artmedia Gallery, April 25 – July 30, 2025.

“I perceive the spaces where time flickers—where déjà vu hums like a distant echo, where a breath feels borrowed from another life.”


AG2020_1820771a or Diurnal respite on the Matanzas; inventing forms of escape; spend the good days readying for it.

Untitled (Diurnal respite on the Matanzas; inventing forms of escape; spend the good days readying for it.) 2020. Archival pigment print, 60 x 40 inches. Shown in Wander and Errancies at CEAM, 2020.


spend the good days readying for it might need an edit. It might refer to something that I noted; I will have to check. Spent good days readying for it. Spent the goods readying for it. Spent the good part of a day. Spent the better part of a day. Spent the good part of many days readying for it. Spent days readying for it. Spend days readying for it.


Only instruction. Not a dwelling.

Or if you must dwell:

The sweet smell of weeds then.

The sweet smell of weeds now.

An endurance. A standoff. A rest.

Weeds, Diane Seuss