tears for more just and equitable conditions, they then marched to city hall with a strategic list of demands. Black life is full of tears and lists.
Tears pooled at the corner, Any City, USA
Category: landscape
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To look at something which is “empty” is still to be looking, still to be seeing something—if only the ghosts of one’s own expectations.
Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will (1969).
…horizon is silence, and the faculty of attention.
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Eugenia uniflora Surinam Cherry, potentially invasive.
En el jardín botanico
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Inquiry into the potentate’s cloak
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“Certain acts dazzle us and light up […]. And to analyze it, that is, to pursue it in a time with the sight and imagination, is to view it in its decline, for after the thrilling moment in which it reveals itself it diminishes with intensity.”
Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose (1946)
Quote via Olga Viso’s Jim Hodges and the Eros of the Everyday.
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Met by luck, with like destinations, We startled again at what ended in pique. Strollers out, seeing us, had no notion;