… a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles (Cummings)
maybe also, a bulb
Category: landscape
Detail (y, a dead star, blue)
AG2024_1066758a and sometimes the living hear
“Dead people never stop talking.”
“Dead people never stop talking and sometimes the living hear.”
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
Morin Guerrier.
In the garden
Nas, Hip Hop is dead, 2006.
Iron Butterfly, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, 1968.
Incredible Bongo Band – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, 1973
The Simpsons – In the Garden of Eden – S07E04
AG2024_1150971a or fine conclusion
It was a fine evening and a fine
conclusion they were coming to,
thought the fox, helping
the chicken out of ?her feathers.
Fable, Andrea Cohen
Michael Giacchino, Meow and You and Everyone We Know, The Batman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
AG2024_1111198a or all you have
“Flattery, deference, smiles, ringing laughter, affectionate greetings were the order of the day.”
“We had been loved, I say, and remembering us, even many years later, people would smile, briefly gladdened at the memory.”
George Saunders
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost
Barter, Sara Teasdale
AG2024_1100727a or perfection of their frailty
Mapping (Almost) Every Tree In Central Park by Margot Adler (2011)
The air smells soft today and of the past,
redbuds dispersing their ruby secrets,
myself among them.
Ghosting Aubade, Amie Whittemore
pausing beneath trees to exchange strange confidences
“the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise,”
“pausing beneath trees to exchange strange confidences withheld during many years of seclusion.”
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
