The willingness to stay in the fathom–Popova
I was in a band one summer
we never could harmonize
we smiled and kept playing
we loved our united disunity
a wild stubborn focus
Auguries Cast Aside by CAConrad
Jean-Luc Godard Was Cinema’s North Star by Richard Brody, September 13, 2022, New Yorker.
Arjun’s dissenting voice murmured in her mind, ‘There will always be poetry.’
[…]
forged together into a force that didn’t need an enemy to define it.
[…]
We run on stories about things […] look at everything you have to work with and find a new shape.
Babylon’s Ashes, James S. A. Corey


Related : ADOPTED LANDSCAPES, opens SEPTEMBER 15, at COLLECTIVE 62 ARTIST STUDIOS


Blackness
[…]
is a commitment
[…]
stretches over the land
[…]
The huge, the pungent object of our prime out-ride
is to Comprehend,
to salute and to Love the fact that we are Black,
which is our “ultimate Reality,”
which is the lone ground
from which our meaningful metamorphosis,
from which our prosperous staccato,
group or individual, can rise.
Primer For Blacks. Gwendolyn Brooks
There is [another] response to chaos, which I have not read about, which is stillness.
TM
Walking, paradoxically, allows for the possibility of stillness.
LE

Place stilled by mottled formations and a scruple of compassion.
Poet’s House : Anne Carson on Stillness (audio), 2018.