Category: language

  • Dolce pensero

    Amor mi manda quel dolce pensero
    che secretario anticho è fra noi due,
    et mi conforta, et dice che non fue
    mai come or presto a quel ch’io bramo et spero.

    Io, che talor menzogna et talor vero
    ò ritrovato le parole sue,
    non so s’i’ ‘l creda, et vivomi intra due,
    né sí né no nel cor mi sona intero.

    In questa passa ‘l tempo, et ne lo specchio
    mi veggio andar ver’ la stagion contraria
    a sua impromessa, et a la mia speranza.

    Or sia che pò: già sol io non invecchio;
    già per etate il mio desir non varia;
    ben temo il viver breve che n’avanza.

    Petrarch, Canzoniere, 168

    Love sends me a sweet thought,
    an ancient messenger between us two,
    to comfort me, saying he was never
    readier than now to grant what I hope and wish.

    I, who have found his words sometimes true,
    and sometimes false, still not certain
    whether to believe him, live between the two,
    neither yes nor no sounds wholly in my heart.

    In this way time flies, and in the mirror
    I see I near the season that opposes
    his promise, and my hopes.

    Now come what must: I’m not alone in growing old:
    only my longing does not alter with the years:
    truly I fear the brief life that cannot last.

    Translated by A.S. Kline.

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    Onomatopoeia: Animal Sounds

    baagoat / sheep
    buzzinsects like bees, mosquitoes, or flies
    chirpbird
    chirpcrickets
    cluckchicken
    cock-a-doodle-doorooster
    gobbleturkey
    hisssnake
    hootowl
    meowcat
    moocow
    neighhorse’s sound
    oinkpig
    quackduck
    ribbitfrog
    roarlion
    woof / bow-wowa sound of a dog’s bark
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    And the lost lore of mournful lands
         It knows alone and guards too well. 

    The Giant Cactus of Arizona, Harriet Monroe

  • AG2024_1088541a or somewhere else

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    “… gone somewhere else, beyond the frame, which is a place that we, viewing this image, cannot know, but guess, …”

    The Grain, Chad Bennett

  • All that is submerged, encased

    I have known only my own shallows—
    Safe, plumbed places,
    Where I was wont to preen myself.

    But for the abyss
    I wanted a plank beneath
    And horizons…

    I was afraid of the silence
    And the slipping toe-hold…

    Oh, could I now dive
    Into the unexplored deeps of me—
    Delve and bring up and give
    All that is submerged, encased, unfolded,
    That is yet the best
    .

    Submerged, Lola Ridge


    my quest, to know myself. 
    To chart and compass this unfathomed sea, 
    Myself must plumb the boundless universe.

    Quest, Carrie Williams Clifford


    Eden in Post

  • AG2022_2040228a or the void does not beckon as it used to

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    Sustained by poetry, fed anew
    by its fires
    to return from madness,
    the void does not beckon as it used to.

    Littered with syllables, the road does not loom
    as a chasm. The hand of strangers on other
    doors does not hurt, the breath of gods

    does not desert, but looms large
    as a dream, a prairie within our dream,
    to which we return, when we need to.

    Oh blessed plain, oh pointed chasm.

    II Alone, John Wieners

  • What lives on

    He was as a god,
    stepped out of eternal dream
    along the boardwalk.

    He looked at my girl,
    a dream to herself and
    that was the end of them.

    They disappeared beside the sea
    at Revere Beach as
    I aint seen them since.

    If you find anyone
    answering their description
    please let me know. I need them

    to carry the weight of my life
    The old gods are gone. What lives on
    in my heart

    is their flesh
    like a wound,
    a tomb, a bomb.

    Billie, John Wieners


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  • Public Sans

    An open source font based on Libre Franklin created by U.S. Web Design System. Contribute to its development on GitHub.

    A strong, neutral typeface for interfaces, text, and headings.

    Latest release Public Sans v2.001, May 11, 2022.


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    Mendieta, Ana
    Árbol de la vida (Tree of life), 1982
    Gelatin silver print
    9 ¼ x 7 ¼ in (23.5 x 18.4 cm)
    Courtesy of Galerie Lelong & Co., and the Estate of Ana Mendieta