Category: studio

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…

We know how close 
we get to feral
when pushed.

Push us, we think.
We’re half 
crime already. 

Election Returns, Christy Prahl

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the scatter as a call to connect the dots differently, or not

How do we stay in life without reproducing what’s diminishing in it?

Here there’s an offering of how to construct and occupy the historical present.

(LB)

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How to Stay Alive as a Small Art Institution, Jenny Wu. Philanthropy Today/ArtReview.

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hatred glosses

and evidence belies.
ourselves but ourselves.

– Cynthia Hogue

That fire in the garden’s an illusion—
the double of the fire that cheers this room.
Now standing at the window in between them,
I watch the spiked montbretia suddenly bloom
and guess the glass is telling me a lie.
But no, the flames are there. I can’t deny
the evidence presented to my eye.
Only to my doubt can I appeal
for news of what is false and what is real.

On Reflection, Anne Stevenson

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Dancing kneeling reaching out, letting   

a hand rest in shadows.

Legacy, Amiri Baraka

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iv.

I know agape means both dumbly
open and love not the kind of love
that climbed the stairs to you.

Sweet Double, Talk-Talk [iv.], Catherine Barnett

… ran through a secret list of everything that was good. (Emily St. John Mandel)

Attend to these found and delicate marks; distinct sentiments may arise; small oscillations

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remains all supple hands and gesture

skin of language
fusing its finest seam

in fluent light
with a raised finger

dance of lips
each sentence complete

he speaks to the shadow
of leaves

strung tissue paper
snipped into delicate flags

on which side of the conversation
did anyone begin?

wearing two skins
the brilliant question mark of Mexico
stands on its head
like an answer

The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat, Naomi Shihab Nye