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Go to homepageHuman in the LoopJonathan Harrell’s Commonplace Book
Go to homepageAt the ocean and there’s a hole
in the sky. I don’t want to think
about the people I love
dying. The best time of day
is just as the fog starts
burning away. A door
floats above an endless horizon. As the Fog Starts Burning Away by Brent Ameneyro, excerpt
but in the morning I am clay again,
I am milk and dough and unhealed wound,
I am only task, only matter, only mass
only a rough gathering of others’ needs,
loosely woven, frayed Mother Dreamwalker by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, excerpt
At the end I think I will know
what pure means, what I meant to insist back
into my blood, whatever it meant to want
to live. Whatever inevitable ruin. First by Joan Naviyuk Kane, excerpt
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Network
Recently watched:
What is expressed and prevails
as a seemingly shared code in common
does not glisten with the aura of its presence
and knows nothing of our inner life. Spotlight on the Word by Astrid Cabral, translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin, excerpt
Finished reading: Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway.
I’d been thinking of how lost
you’d have to be
to believe you knew
everything there was to know
about yourself. Mondegreen by Bobby Elliott, excerpt
Outside the window, my ghost
is across the pasture. Soon it will walk its way
back to me. I will be full again, but not fully. Consumption by Adam Gianforcaro, excerpt
I’ve been troubled by their pains. In the name of Things, I want peace. I will be done with my displays. There is protection from nearly everything. But there is no protection from mankind. Aniara
Recently watched:
Today in a beam of sun
the baby’s eyelashes had gold in them
and closed down on his cheek. Madonna by Lindsay Turner, excerpt