How to Stay Alive as a Small Art Institution, Jenny Wu. Philanthropy Today/ArtReview.
hatred glosses
and evidence belies.
ourselves but ourselves.
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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