04/26/2025: She waved at them and spoke through me, fogging my skin with words I couldn’t hear. I wasn’t cold anymore, her breath so warm, ...
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04/25/2025: Who can blame them for believing what they saw? Bodies holding each other in the night, against the darkness. I have no excuse....
04/25/2025: A surreal and unsettling painting of a humanoid figure with distorted facial features. The face appears melted or deformed, wit...
04/20/2025: when I kneel to the well’s sunken eye, the cure looks back, but those blue eyes aren’t mine. At Gleannagalt by Doireann Ní Ghrí...
04/14/2025: someone wailed & the boy’s mother yells: This ain’t justice. You can’t throw my son into that fucking ocean. She meant jail. & ...
04/12/2025: A black-and-white photograph of an industrial street scene, likely from mid-20th century Britain. A group of children walk alon...
04/07/2025: Outside, nothing moves: only the rain nailing the house up like a coffin. Rainy Day by Bert Meyers, excerpt
04/06/2025: Cradled now, we sleep the sleep of stones. Maybe in twenty centuries you’ll find us here, another fetal xenolith waiting to be ...
04/06/2025: Rusty, overgrown farming equipment sits forgotten among trees in a wooded area. The metal wheels and gears are partially consum...
04/03/2025: And when the jaguar dived beneath me and lifted me up into the light I clung to his back and rode my life. The River by Pascale...
03/31/2025: A worn, metal shovel lies on dark, uneven soil. Scattered around the shovel are a few vivid red rose petals and dried leaves, c...
03/30/2025: Rain is the reason, and old pains Have emptied the public library so That only the bare shelves show Canandaigua by Donald Reve...
03/29/2025: A sketchbook-style composition of two tree studies painted in monochrome ink. The left tree is curved and leafy, while the righ...
03/29/2025: A watercolor of Gothic ruins, with tall arched windows opening onto a soft, mossy floor. The crumbling architecture stands in m...
03/23/2025: Death doesn’t exist. It never did, it never will. But we’ve drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down,...
03/22/2025: How many times, I begin to think, how many times will I still be here with them sifting slow heat in the grass, not knowing whi...
03/20/2025: Every time I survived a war zone, I thought I was sending a warning home - “Don’t do this”. But here we are. Civil War Recen...
03/20/2025: A quiet, foggy lake scene framed by bare, twisted tree branches in the foreground, with muted tones and leafless trees in the d...
03/11/2025: There is less and less difference between your shadow and the shadow inside you and all the shadows... Any Evening by James Ric...
03/08/2025: Sometimes I think you’d give anything to disappear into the twilight again to walk ashore, not looking back Twilight by Joseph ...
02/27/2025: A sailboat silhouetted against a vibrant orange sunset, with the sun perfectly positioned behind its sail as it glides across c...
02/25/2025: A speedboat racing across choppy turquoise waters, with misty spray trailing behind and lush, mountainous coastline visible und...
02/18/2025: So hello universe! My name is temporary and my bones are made of you, you with your far mountaining nebulas, you with your fire...
02/15/2025: A monochromatic ink painting featuring an abstract landscape. It depicts a bare tree in the foreground with delicate, spindly b...
02/09/2025: If only some people can have it, that’s not happiness. That’s just nonsense. Happiness is something anyone can have. Monster ...
02/07/2025: By which he meant light, the lightness of air: the lob and lift and score. The swelling crowd. The flicker first before the bel...
02/02/2025: And what possible explanation is there for our wrong turning, but our insistent repetition of the wrong turning? [Now the Joshu...
01/26/2025: I know what it is to exist... between the world’s certainties. Conclave Recently watched: Clue The Wicker Man The Brutalist...
01/25/2025: A surreal and abstract artwork featuring a distorted human figure, seemingly merging with mechanical or organic elements. The c...
01/24/2025: I got idea, man You take me for a walk Under the sycamore trees The dark trees that blow, baby In the dark trees that blow Syca...
01/16/2025: I’ll show you light now. It burns bright forever. No more blue tomorrows. You on high now, love. Inland Empire R.I.P. David ...
01/13/2025: Professor, my dreams grow darker. Does evil come from within us, or from beyond? Nosferatu Recently watched: Nosferatu (202...
01/09/2025: There is a country I see on the internet and in the street outside I see a country there is also a country I see in my mind I d...
01/09/2025: Abstract painting of a person rendered in green horizontal brushstrokes, blending shades of green and yellow. The figure's feat...
01/04/2025: maybe there’s room for the wind to fit somewhere. It used to usher clouds overhead, and sometimes a few of them would open. Fir...
12/30/2024: What I was is vanished. I came back home but I came back gone. Dark Register by Cynthia Cruz, excerpt
12/23/2024: Tonight, I expect the only star in the sky to be so bright I’ll forget all I know about sorrow, how it feels like sandpaper aga...
12/14/2024: [...] as they rose through layers of dream to lip at the dark, to effortlessly fin in and out of the netting, and then to be go...
12/14/2024: An abstract artwork, created using black ink or paint on a white background. The composition is textured, with layered strokes,...
11/29/2024: A black-and-white abstract artwork with a central circular formation surrounded by smaller bubble-like shapes and radial streak...
11/21/2024: Finished reading: Atlas of World History edited by Patrick K. O’Brien.
11/17/2024: Flowers are only flowers because they fall, But thankfully the wind. Shogun
11/11/2024: I feel so tempted. I feel so tempted to despair. I’m afraid. The weight of your silence is terrible. I pray, but I’m lost. Or a...
11/03/2024: An old brick building with boarded-up and broken windows, covered in graffiti. The structure shows signs of decay, with crumbli...
10/28/2024: He was a solemn and delicate little boy. [...] The hole in his heart was not what killed him; it was the way that his lungs had...
10/25/2024: Finished reading: The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.
10/24/2024: A winged horse is a regatta of stars— human’s first spacecraft, the moon, too, is a changing hoof. [...] The tail, a brush of a...
10/21/2024: in the dream, I wake treading the underwater in the black beneath I see like horses galloping the gloom of the sea Qasida for A...
10/13/2024: Oh, I lie now and then, I suppose. Sometimes I’d tell them the truth and they still wouldn’t believe me, so I prefer to lie. Th...
10/03/2024: A serene photograph of a pond covered with lily pads, surrounded by dense trees and grassy vegetation at night. The water refle...
09/10/2024: A serene night scene depicting a traditional Japanese building partially obscured by trees, bathed in soft moonlight. The sky i...
09/05/2024: Finished reading: Rationality by Steven Pinker.
09/04/2024: Will you tell us how he died?—Will you tell us about the other worlds out among the stars—the other kinds of men; the other liv...
09/02/2024: When you look up at the sky at night, since I’ll be living on one of them, since I’ll be laughing on one of them, for you it’ll...
09/02/2024: Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in t...
08/30/2024: A surreal, mixed-media artwork depicting a dimly lit, eerie interior scene. A woman in a floral skirt cautiously peers around t...
08/12/2024: Your fingers on my spine: primal shudder of an ancient code. Offices by Rosanna Warren, excerpt
08/12/2024: Album cover for Stealing Fire by Bruce Cockburn. The cover art depicts a surreal, statue-like figure with a greenish stone text...
07/27/2024: A painting of a dense, stylized forest with tall, slender trees reaching toward the sky. The forest floor is dotted with rounde...
07/27/2024: Why does a beautiful sketch accord greater pleasure than a beautiful painting? Because it has more life and fewer forms... Perh...
07/27/2024: A close-up of a sheet music page covered with extensive handwritten notes and edits in multiple colors of ink, including blue, ...
07/27/2024: A close-up photograph of an illuminated manuscript, featuring Latin text in gold leaf. On the left page, the text is faded and ...
07/25/2024: I believe in today, this apple that isn’t quite ripe yet, this poem that isn’t finished, a bed rumpled with my husband’s still ...
07/23/2024: I woke up afraid I’d bled through the skin of my body. The furniture wept at the sight of all that blood. Surfacing by Stefanie...
07/23/2024: A surreal illustration of a human profile in muted tones, with a flock of white birds emerging from the figure’s head, each bir...
07/21/2024: Finished reading: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson.
07/20/2024: A vintage travel poster for American Airlines featuring a horse-drawn carriage on a misty New York street at night. The surroun...
07/15/2024: You say There was no place in nature we could meet. You say this as if you need me to admit something. No place in nature, give...
07/14/2024: Recently watched: Inside Out 2 Playtime Miss Hokusai War of the Planet of the Apes
07/10/2024: Some days my own adolescence feels as if it were extinguished. A me I loved’s past is disappeared, so I fill it with my guts. I...
07/05/2024: There is no death that cannot be undone by simply turning the compost with a pitchfork or by scattering scratch in the dirt for...
07/04/2024: A wide, upward view of a tree from beneath, focusing on the sprawling branches that extend outward in all directions. The brigh...
06/30/2024: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Rebecca Recently watched: Jim Henson: Idea Man Thelma & Louise Rebecca Cape ...
06/08/2024: Listening to: Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.
06/06/2024: don’t be surprised the ground’s so fertile young queers been fucking in the fields [...] if they bury enough wild queers in the...
05/31/2024: We set out into the Universe to discover life, while life discovered us. Ikarie XB 1 Recently watched: Challengers Enter th...
05/24/2024: I ask my mother if she’d like to go for a drive. There’s a loop—we’re backing out of the driveway—it’s taking a long time to ha...
05/06/2024: the way dark cedars suck light from sky the way dark hills suck light from air the trees more perfect black more perfect black ...
04/24/2024: A handwritten letter accompanied by delicate pen sketches. The illustrations show a small mouse in bed with a bottle of medicin...
04/20/2024: Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you / You sold me. 1984 Recently watched: Blood Simple 1984 Late Night with the ...
03/30/2024: They’ve built their own prison, so they exist in a state of schizophrenia. They’re both guards and prisoners and as a result th...
03/25/2024: break the windows come with your roots and your worms [...] cover us with your rustling greenery and your spores cover us that ...
03/03/2024: Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a mag...
03/02/2024: Brian went outside and left forever, took the rest of the silverware. [...] The cutlery turned ash in his pockets. That heavy ...
03/01/2024: Sometimes, The dream is the thing: Shadow-split light On a staircase That leads nowhere. Me, standing in a dark room, With no p...
02/26/2024: Who is the living food for the machines in Metropolis? Who lubricates the machine joints with their own blood? Who feeds the ma...
02/18/2024: A narrow urban alleyway adorned with strings of red and white lanterns glowing softly in the evening. The lanterns, hanging in ...
02/16/2024: Your brother is lost, my mother says, because we didn’t believe him. He told us there was loud humming inside the walls—Go to s...
02/08/2024: But I don’t worship anyone or anything except the sea and the mountains and they will kill me eventually, and I will die willin...
02/03/2024: Her moans and sighs, her coos perch on the ceiling fan.   I pluck them off one by one, cup them, say:   Shh...
01/20/2024: The moment you said you loved me, your love ended. And the moment your love ended, my love began. Decision to Leave Recently...
01/19/2024: instead, we’re waiting for the boy to square his gaze and ask again, who’s going to teach me now? or hold up his wrists to the ...
12/28/2023: Tonight, I am a boy again, Treading air through the dark woods. A cozy, warmly lit cabin surrounded by trees in a dark forest....
12/27/2023: That night, in sleep, I saw the forest clearing by the moor’s edge, and the ring of his ashes. [...] And there: a girl, running...
12/26/2023: This was my world. It was beautiful and messy and tragic and silly. It cannot last. Now go make your own. The Boy and the Heron...
12/03/2023: A cubist still life featuring a white, pedestal fruit bowl holding green fruits, with additional fruits scattered around the ba...
12/02/2023: This image depicts a tranquil cemetery scene, capturing a serene atmosphere in the early morning or late afternoon light. The g...
11/30/2023: Look! We made an electric tree. Binary branching, Node-hanging leaves, Roots of copper and silicon weave. Isn’t it beautiful? P...
11/25/2023: Dream thoughts are wild and senseless, yet have a pleasing music. I translate quickly, or I forget, and the page is silent. FRO...
11/22/2023: Yes, push forward. Pray that you learn valor and be given luck. You will walk many miles. Dozens will become hundreds. Hundreds...
11/19/2023: This image depicts a peaceful cemetery scene, with a variety of gravestones and monuments set against a backdrop of tall trees ...
11/18/2023: The third image captures a large, stone-like object enclosed in a minimalist frame. Its texture and sheer weight contrast with ...
11/16/2023: Sweet fin-legged future, with your salt skin and baleen teeth, beat me against the reef, force a different mode of breathing. T...
11/07/2023: I [...] saw what was beneath and hidden in the silt. drank the water, the soil, and what was in that too. I won’t say I drowne...
11/04/2023: An image of an art installation made of hanging strings with small reflective or illuminated beads. The beads catch the light, ...
10/29/2023: The storm is powerful. So we have to be quiet for now.... Just be still. Killers of the Flower Moon Recently watched: Secre...
10/28/2023: I saw a hole in the sky, Gaping mouth of something nameless Sucking in all the light, Breathing out a cold, dead wind. I pointe...
10/24/2023: Finished reading: Half a King by Joe Abercrombie.
10/18/2023: All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. Finished re...
10/15/2023: Recently watched: Se7en Friday Foreign Correspondent
10/07/2023: Just like a dream experience, whatever things I enjoy will become a memory. Whatever is past will not be seen again. Kundun ...
10/06/2023: I sat in the woods so long I became something else. My skin split open, My bones grew roots, My hair became a tangle of kudzu. ...
10/05/2023: This image depicts a foggy coastal scene, where the mist blends the horizon with the sea, creating a mysterious and serene atmo...
10/04/2023: If I brought back every feeling I had where would I put them, what could they mean to this world on the floor? Findspot Unknown...
10/04/2023: This image shows a peaceful harbor with boats gently floating on the water. The sun is low in the sky, reflecting off the water...
10/04/2023: We came ashore on Monhegan, A foul landing on the Shattering Rocks. We watched for years as the old boat rusted, And our lovely...
10/03/2023: I want to witness my brother’s life. I want to hear my sister laugh forever. I want the sweet middle immortal as a photograph, ...
10/02/2023: This image shows the intricate interior of a lighthouse's Fresnel lens. The reflections and refractions of light through the gl...
10/01/2023: This image captures a rugged coastline with large rocks and crashing waves. The mist from the sea creates a soft haze around th...
09/30/2023: When I stood beneath the moon, I wept, Knowing how perfect the moment was: The silver air, Waves swelling in the dark tides, Ab...
08/25/2023: a boy who has worked all day sleeps under stars devoted to nothingness & the rain about to fall Some Days I’d Rather Be Anyone ...
08/22/2023: Each year I lose a little more of it, the spaces between the vertebrae slowly sighing closed like an accordion Height by Julien...
08/20/2023: Maybe you, I and the fish only exist in the memory of a person who is long gone. Maybe no one really exists and it’s only raini...
08/12/2023: The artwork depicts a rural landscape with a path leading toward a small house in the distance. The scene is framed by pollard ...
08/07/2023: This image features a close-up of a fallen tree trunk covered in green moss. The log lies on the forest floor, surrounded by tr...
08/03/2023: This image shows the Brooklyn Bridge, silhouetted against a setting sun. The sun peeks between the cables of the bridge, castin...
07/28/2023: Recently watched: Barbie Black Narcissus Oppenheimer
07/21/2023: You’re afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren’t you? The Fly Recently watched: My Beautiful Laundrette The Fly Mission:...
07/12/2023: What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are ...
06/19/2023: See Mount Soracte shining in the snow. See how the laboring overladen trees Can scarcely bear their burdens any longer. See how...
06/14/2023: Carriages waited at the curb for the entire performance. It was widely known in New York, but never acknowledged, that American...
05/23/2023: Just remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. And before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for...
05/22/2023: Finished reading: Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday.
05/21/2023: If you could be a horseman riding bareback through the winds and rains on a transparent horse constantly buffeted by the veloci...
05/13/2023: Southern cedar summers. Pine sap fingers And honeysuckle smell. In the lake, The shadow of a horsefly, The tickle of hydrilla A...
05/11/2023: This image captures a tranquil graveyard bathed in warm, golden-hour light. The soft sunlight filters through the trees, castin...
05/10/2023: This photo shows a leafless tree adorned with various colored bottles (green, blue, clear) hanging from its branches. The tree ...
05/07/2023: This image captures a serene outdoor setting at dusk. Warm, glowing string lights are suspended between trees, creating a cozy ...
04/30/2023: Zoom back camera. Recently watched: The Holy Mountain.
04/23/2023: Cat eyes stare out between Shop window neon, Watching the streets change. Nothing will be the way that it was. Even the cat, in...
04/22/2023: This image shows an ornate religious or historical doorway, decorated with a beautiful arrangement of pink roses, forming an ar...
04/22/2023: A detailed architectural drawing of a lavish church interior, showcasing grand columns, arches, and a coffered ceiling. The spa...
04/21/2023: A nighttime photo of the Statue of Liberty illuminated against a cloudy sky. The statue stands tall on Liberty Island, with the...
04/21/2023: A bright daytime photo of a city skyline in the background, with tall skyscrapers rising above a lush, green park. The foregrou...
04/20/2023: The best of us Was a cherry blossom, Flowering for a moment In perfect sunlight, Then scattered, Like ashes In an October wind....
03/05/2023: If there’s nothing else, there’s applause. I’ve listened backstage to people applaud. It’s like - like waves of love coming ove...
03/04/2023: The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. Recently read: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
02/25/2023: I recall these moments [...] from a small place, the place where my child’s hand is hidden warmly inside my own. Traces by Matt...
02/25/2023: An abstract painting featuring flowing, curving black lines and shapes on a light textured background, evoking a sense of movem...
02/20/2023: An intricate architectural sketch of a Paris Métro entrance, drawn in a soft, flowing Art Nouveau style. The curves and swirls ...
02/18/2023: A bird's-eye view of a busy city street intersection, with several yellow taxis and cars driving along the road. Pedestrians ca...
02/12/2023: You know how everyone’s always saying seize the moment? I don’t know, I’m kinda thinking it’s the other way around. You know, l...
02/10/2023: The furnace inhaled its flames. It went cold. I walked out the door to no one. I was on fire. The Furnace by Robert Krut, excerpt
02/05/2023: A grid of small, numbered subway signs with abbreviations for various stations and locations such as "FORDM RD" (Fordham Road),...
01/21/2023: I’d stopped even paying attention to him. Instead, I sat in the car and read a map and spelled out entire sentences with my ton...
01/11/2023: Pages from a book celebrating the art and design of my brother Luca (1991-2013). A hand-drawn self-portrait sketch from 2013...
01/02/2023: I am floating Over a cul-de-sac Of impossible geometry. I see our old house Under a streetlamp, Windows eye-like in the walls....
01/02/2023: A spore, a spawn, a seed— Something grows in the underbrush, Mycelium through the rot of trees, Weaving a tapestry of hyaline t...
01/01/2023: A blurred, dreamlike image of bare tree branches reaching toward the sky, with warm orange light reflecting off the trunks. In ...
12/19/2022: Recently watched: Avatar: The Way of Water The Nightmare Before Christmas
12/17/2022: All through the garden Went gentle-feathered light, Split colors on concrete diffusion, Inverted shadow of a bird in flight. A...
12/06/2022: What happens, happens, and then we are gone. Pinocchio Recently watched: Whisper of the Heart Tokyo Godfathers The Fabelman...
12/03/2022: I think I have been sad every afternoon of my life. Outside a child runs in the grass. Soon I will appear and call her to me. G...
11/23/2022: Giovanni: I guess it’s just the two of us now. Hey, let’s just keep going like this forever, okay? That’s right! We’ll always b...
11/17/2022: There is an old stone that still remembers The salty, wet-moustached kiss of the sea, Violent feather brush of white winged win...
11/16/2022: We have a right to wander That still untamed heath, To stand before the grey stones At the wild setting of the sun, To watch th...
11/13/2022: A close-up view of an ornate stone doorway on a historic building. The arched wooden door is framed by detailed stone carvings,...
11/13/2022: Already old, when we find them. Already marked by a hundred winds, Deep-grooved by a thousand hammering rains. The stones have ...
11/11/2022: A dramatic light show with beams of blue light extending from above, creating a radial pattern. The lights shine down onto a da...
11/11/2022: A minimalist line drawing of traditional musical instruments, including cymbals (Jabara), a gong (Jing), a drum (Yonggo), a sea...
11/10/2022: A nighttime urban scene featuring old brick buildings with lit windows. The buildings are closely packed, with some windows cas...
10/27/2022: Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the...
10/25/2022: His friend who whispers. Don’t. Move. And then there’s a kiss. Lips quickly snipping against his. Silence. [...] He pulls his b...
10/07/2022: We won’t live forever, but I am afraid some wrong citizen will mistake him for a scar on the neighborhood—they will take him fr...
10/05/2022: A serene image of a vast ocean horizon at sunset, with the sky transitioning from soft pastel orange near the horizon to deep b...
09/24/2022: and he who wants to remember can see how the deep suddenly sparks, attracts the light, becomes living as when an eye opens, and...
09/17/2022: To be in chains is sometimes safer than to be free. Recently watched: The Trial.
09/10/2022: His eyes turned back in his head working his way to the bedrooms, staining the sheets with his blistered hands, and though I kn...
08/19/2022: Recently watched: Nope Bodies Bodies Bodies
08/13/2022: A sunny street scene featuring a row of colorful, old-fashioned buildings with fire escapes. The building on the right is paint...
07/30/2022: Finished reading: The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang.
07/24/2022: Phyllis: My husband. You were anxious to talk to him weren’t you? Walter Neff: Yeah, I was, but I’m sort of getting over the id...
07/23/2022: She died, and you didn’t. What else could be squeezed out of the rag of memory? School beckons. What matters most is least real...
07/19/2022: you must surely feel the last sweet air before reaching the point where the brain unplugs its love and looks sideways. Sister i...
06/25/2022: O what Protean forms swim up from men’s minds, and melt in hot Promethean plunder, scorching eyes, with divine shames and horro...
06/21/2022: How do we bid farewell to him, no longer among us? [...] How do we bid farewell to the one we can never speak to again, we spea...
06/20/2022: Poor fool, you are divided at the heart, Lost in its maze of chambers, blood, and love, A heart that will one day beat you to d...
06/19/2022: A vibrant image of people sitting outside a restaurant, seen through a large window framed by exposed brick. The neon red "Time...
06/18/2022: Cybernated creature Slouching towards the Electric Square, To be born. It has claws in all our fingers. It has sunk its teeth I...
06/11/2022: Long live the new flesh! Videodrome Recently watched: Videodrome Incendies
06/06/2022: Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup Looking down for miles Through high still air. Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout...
05/29/2022: Then we came to the place of broken trees, The tumbledown land under a dusting of spores. I saw bones in the undergrowth and re...
05/21/2022: There are things you do hate, Lord. Perfume-smellin’ things, lacy things, things with curly hair. The Night of the Hunter Re...
05/20/2022: So easy to rip out a heart when it is throbbing so hard. I wander out into the winter. I know what I am. I’ve Been Thinking abo...
05/19/2022: A tiny hand start pulling at my sleeve. In his sleep the child I never had was reaching Out for me, while the father I never be...
05/06/2022: You are transparent. I see the light through you. The world looks better, somehow, When I see it through your skin. I’m scared,...
05/04/2022: ...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver’s mind, not in the object; they told me...
05/03/2022: Finished reading: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson.
04/30/2022: To you I’m suddenly speaking Gaelic, like language translated into slow light – and swift dark – Gaelic by Jen Hadfield, excerpt
04/26/2022: A good place to hide a drop of water is a stream. A good place to hide a stream is beneath an ocean. A good place to hide a man...
04/24/2022: A tall, monolithic stone sculpture with a mix of rough, jagged surfaces and smoother, more polished sections. The piece appears...
04/09/2022: I live inside a metal throat, Steel esophagus swallowing me down, While I scramble to keep a view of the sky. I am a passenger ...
04/05/2022: Recently watched: Everything Everywhere All at Once.
04/02/2022: I sit on my web and watch all the people, I watch as the net bows and sags beneath their feet. When I’m alone in the darkness I...
03/14/2022: Recently watched: Kwaidan Lost Highway
03/13/2022: Go to the wilderness, they told him. Go there to meet God. But when he went, He built a mansion in his own image, And no one st...
03/07/2022: Recently watched: Wings Memories of Murder The Batman
03/02/2022: I apprenticed myself to the light and saw it break on everything. Autotomy by JP Grasser, excerpt
02/12/2022: Recently watched: Belle La Belle et la Bête Night of the Living Dead
02/05/2022: Love your past, but travel on. The House Recently watched: The House Nightmare Alley
02/05/2022: A bold, surreal depiction of an oval-shaped face with exaggerated features. The face has sharp, cat-like eyes, a long red nose,...
01/05/2022: I can’t decide if it’s just my being so much older now, or if it’s always been true, that winter foliage is the prettiest folia...
12/31/2021: A stone is a stone is a stone. Should I be a round one, worn down, No edges or burrs or sharpness, Nothing for the light to cat...
12/29/2021: I want to make every word a tree, a loaf of bread or a kiss I wish for whoever does not love trees Bread And kisses To stop tal...
12/04/2021: A stylized, abstract bird-like figure against a dark background. The geometric shapes and sharp lines form a fragmented, futuri...
11/07/2021: A metal walkway with railings leads to an open view of the city skyline. Modern buildings and rooftops are visible in the dista...
10/27/2021: If you think about it, everything’s inside something else; everything’s an envelope inside a package in a case— and pain knows ...
10/19/2021: The night dark of Brooklyn, Dirty amber streets, Trains running down deep green. We are all living things, Under the metal viol...
10/18/2021: The same ghostly sound the deer makes when it runs Through the woods at night, white lightning through the trees, [...] The bra...
10/06/2021: I had to say stop—and let red fill the harbor, and let red wash the shore, and vow never to touch another living thing for fear...
09/27/2021: And does the water leap when you call it? Does it come panting to your feet? Does it tongue over all your burrs And make you sm...
09/16/2021: I look into the mirror, as if through my cousin’s eyes— that afternoon, in the rosemary alley, a boy was kissed by another boy,...
08/31/2021: I would travel alone to a quiet mossy place, you would spill from me into the earth drop by bright red drop. Child Burial by Pa...
08/05/2021: The fields fill with the flashlights of so many people looking for each other, flooding the skies here, floors and floors benea...
08/05/2021: When I look back, my mother has become indistinguishable from the shadows under the trees. Palinode by Michael Prior, excerpt
07/30/2021: we watched as they waded, timid at first, into the liquid crystals of the television. Then, more swiftly, their daggers clenche...
07/23/2021: An abstract and vibrant display of colorful neon lights suspended from the ceiling in a dark space. The lights are arranged in ...
07/17/2021: To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken. Finished ...
07/05/2021: A dramatic view from beneath a large suspension bridge, showcasing the intricate metal framework and beams that support the str...
06/26/2021: A traditional ink painting of birds in a natural setting, rendered in a minimalist style. The painting features two larger bird...
06/18/2021: The city left behind a skeleton of concrete, Ribs that became a jungle of glass. Somewhere there is still a tended path Through...
05/06/2021: And will you see the starships drifting over rain-colored mountains? The copper-streaked leaves that shine in the pattering rai...
03/25/2021: From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they h...
12/28/2020: There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. Finished re...
12/13/2020: Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Wo...
11/16/2020: History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened ...
09/02/2020: There is a special kind of fire That only burns in the sky. Flames of cloud and sunlight, Warming, then purpling, Then bruising...
03/22/2020: Some nights We stay up passing it back and forth between us drinking deep What Keeps by C.D. Wright, excerpt
03/08/2020: An empty parking garage with a dimly lit, industrial atmosphere, illuminated by a bright green fluorescent light hanging from t...
02/08/2020: Sit little spirit, Sit and think of the elder days, When the world was yours. A lush, tropical scene featuring a small pond su...
12/27/2019: A pastoral scene of a grassy hill enclosed by a wooden fence. The sun peeks through the clouds, casting a soft light over the l...
10/21/2019: Looking through the kitchen window, Her hands turned pruny from dishwater, She saw all the beauty of the world In a ray of sunl...
09/14/2019: A breathtaking cityscape at sunset, with the sky awash in vibrant shades of orange, pink, and purple as the sun dips below the ...
09/12/2019: The prison is empty On the hill above the water. I’m not afraid of ghosts, I think, As I walk the old roads And startle at ever...
09/11/2019: A view looking up at one of the tall towers of a red suspension bridge. The thick cables run along the tower, which stands agai...
09/11/2019: A mist sits over the skeleton woods, Where dead trees lie like bones, Old trunks like spines—bent, broken, A tibia, a femur, a ...
09/10/2019: A tranquil sunset over a marshland with patches of water reflecting the soft light. The sky is a gradient of orange and yellow ...
09/07/2019: A sunny beach scene with a wide stretch of golden sand under a clear blue sky. Tall palm trees line a walkway on the right side...
05/25/2019: The water comes close. Every year it comes closer. I feel the pull strong, Back out sea-side. One day the tide comes And I’ve g...
01/04/2019: A winter scene in a park, with bare trees and rocky terrain in the foreground. In the background, towering modern skyscrapers w...
06/25/2018: A quiet and charming Venetian canal with a small arched pedestrian bridge crossing over the water. The narrow canal is lined wi...
06/23/2018: The story of Misurina— A girl living forever beneath the water, While her father weeps. We give the water ashes of our own dead...
06/22/2018: The image shows a view from a partially open window with light curtains on one side. Outside, there is a vibrant display of red...
06/20/2018: Yellow-pink stucco In afternoon light. White sails on Ligurian blue. A lone sailboat gliding across calm blue waters, with a p...
06/19/2018: A nighttime view of a grand stone archway, illuminated by soft yellow lights. The tall, imposing columns support an arched ceil...
06/15/2018: An upward view of a grand architectural building, likely a cathedral, partially obscured by lush green trees and blooming pink ...
06/13/2018: There is a gilded chapel, Sitting in long-grass woods, Cross pointing to open sky. I, though, love the nave of leaning trees, T...
12/23/2017: Out in the pine woods He and I built a secret place— A perfect shelter Out of branches And rope. In its shadow, We’d whisper se...
12/11/2017: A nighttime urban scene with heavy snowfall illuminated by a streetlight. Large snowflakes are captured in mid-fall, creating a...
11/12/2017: Abstract artwork featuring a dark, almost black background. Minimalist geometric shapes and lines form a highly stylized face w...
10/29/2017: Abstract graphic design featuring bold black numbers and geometric shapes on a beige background. The main focus is on large num...
10/07/2017: The day is dark Is done Is coming undone. Dark, overcast sky with gusts of wind carrying scattered autumn leaves through the a...
09/16/2017: A foggy marina scene with several sailboats docked along a pier. Smaller boats are tied up in the foreground, while the distant...
09/03/2017: A peaceful lake at sunset, with the sun dipping behind distant hills and casting an orange glow over the water. A boat is docke...
09/03/2017: In quiet places, when the day is old And I feel the night-chill seeping out of the grass, I would sit beneath the trees, if I c...
06/16/2017: When I was a boy, I used to say “God is blue.” “Is God as big as the sky?” “Is God space?” A flock of birds flying in formatio...
11/06/2016: A gallery display of six minimalist abstract artworks, each featuring geometric shapes and lines. The color palette includes bl...
10/06/2016: Abstract artwork featuring a dark background with a large black circle near the top, a smaller cone-like shape connected by a t...
09/10/2016: Stone steps leading up a grassy hill, surrounded by tall wild grasses and a few small trees. The sky above is bright blue with ...
09/05/2016: That place, that childhood beach, Where you first learned to love and fear the sea... Go there. Stand at the shore. Let your fe...
07/23/2016: Several sailboats lined up in the distance on a calm sea, heading toward the horizon. A small lighthouse on the right marks the...
05/14/2016: View looking into a paper sculpture made of concentric square layers, creating the illusion of a spiral staircase. The soft lig...
04/16/2016: Clear, bright day over a calm turquoise sea, with a deep blue sky stretching above. A few small sailboats and distant vessels c...
10/17/2015: Read aloud the stone words, Find all the ways the rocks can speak. Close-up of a large rock face in a forest, with sunlight ca...
10/09/2015: An alley can be beautiful— A narrowness of buildings, Iron lattice of fire escapes, The strange darkness of in-between, Of on-y...
09/09/2015: Several sailboats with colorful sails scattered across the water at sunset. The sky is a gradient of soft pinks, oranges, and b...
09/06/2015: Blurred image of a subway train in motion, with a digital display reading the destination and passengers faintly visible throug...
07/30/2015: Peaceful sunset by the water, with sailboats scattered across the horizon. The sky is painted in soft pastel hues of pink and o...
07/25/2015: Aerial view of a bustling city skyline on a clear day, showcasing numerous skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, with the Willis...
06/01/2015: View of large, billowing clouds from above, taken from an airplane. The towering clouds cast shadows over the landscape below, ...
01/04/2015: Industrial area in winter, with snow-covered ground and train tracks in the foreground. In the background are red brick buildin...
11/30/2014: View from a car on a highway heading toward a fog-covered city skyline, with the silhouette of a tall skyscraper, the Willis To...
11/22/2014: There was a haze over the city. I couldn’t see you from where you stood, Right there in front of me. Hold out your hand, I said...
11/09/2014: View from an upstairs hallway looking down at a tall green plant placed in front of an arched window. The space is illuminated ...
10/24/2014: A grand carousel illuminated at night, with its reflection visible on the water in front. Surrounding the scene are smoke and f...
10/18/2014: A memory of light. Several small tealight candles placed on a wooden surface, each softly glowing and casting gentle light and...
10/15/2014: Nighttime view of a neoclassical colonnade lit from below, with tall, illuminated office buildings towering in the background. ...
10/12/2014: Close-up of vibrant purple flowers in bloom, with a background of blurred orange and green foliage from trees in the distance. ...
10/11/2014: Cozy living room with sunlight streaming through stained glass windows. A dark couch is positioned against the windows, with a ...
08/17/2014: Ghost planes over Lake Michigan. Eight airplanes dispersing in various directions, each leaving a distinct smoke trail against...
07/25/2014: Quiet, quiet, said the storm. I’m trying to tell you something... A word, a thunderclap, A strike of light across your eyes. Li...
07/24/2014: A steep, industrial staircase spirals upwards inside a large, cylindrical concrete shaft. The metal stairway is sharply angled,...
06/22/2014: A wide-angle view of a quiet urban street under a dark, stormy sky. The street is lined with brick buildings, including an auto...
06/14/2014: Aerial view of a grassy field with the shadow of a Ferris wheel cast on the ground. The shadow is partially obscured by a tree,...
05/27/2014: A color photo taken from a park, showing the Chicago skyline in the distance. Two people are walking along a path lined with ba...
04/27/2014: A quiet country road with a wooden fence running alongside a grassy field. The road is gravel, and the scene is bathed in warm,...
04/20/2014: Great Guide, the Saura called it. Pilot Mountain. Maybe my visit is a prayer, A wish for something as certain as stone. But no,...
04/13/2014: Pages for Naked in Seoul, a collection of essays and photographs about my time in South Korea. A single multicolored autumn ...
03/20/2014: Winter, creeping its fingers over the eaves. A calm lake reflects the overcast sky and the trees lining the shore. The still w...
02/14/2014: Back home. A snow-covered path through a forest, surrounded by trees heavily dusted with fresh snow. Footprints lead through t...
01/27/2014: On Macau, Memories of an old religion, A crumbling church facade. Rusted-out tenements, Casinos, too— A different kind of praye...
01/27/2014: In Hong Kong. A serene courtyard garden within a traditional temple complex. Neatly pruned bonsai-style trees line the pathway...
12/29/2013: Winter runs through the stones at Taejongdae, Chilling the strata, turning them blue. A rugged, towering rock formation standi...
12/22/2013: Lonely palace corridors, Tile roofs tipped with snow. A winter in Seoul. A small, ornate gazebo with a green, pointed roof sta...
12/15/2013: Back on the slopes of Sunrise Peak. It feels different this time. A goodbye. A dramatic coastal cliffside with a rugged path l...
09/21/2013: A stylized, colorful illustration of a Japanese garden with rocks, shrubs, and a pond filled with lily pads. The scene is desig...
09/20/2013: Reflections at the Golden Pavilion, Beside burning incense and an ocean of stones. The reflection of a golden pavilion buildin...
09/19/2013: A colorful crest for the Ghibli Museum, featuring a whimsical design. The crest is divided into four quadrants: the top-left sh...
09/18/2013: The vertigo of a million buildings, And clouds over Mount Fuji. A high-altitude view of a mountainous landscape partially obsc...
09/14/2013: Living beside Nakdong River. Sometimes I see mist in the mountains. Other days, the sun shines through a hazy sky. A wide rive...
08/10/2013: A labeled architectural diagram of a traditional Korean palace complex. The diagram includes multiple structures with tiled roo...
08/09/2013: The elegant courtyards of Gyeongbokgung. A long corridor of a traditional Korean palace with red columns supporting a beautifu...
08/06/2013: Mist clings to the side of Mount Halla, I walk up, into nothingness. Two large, weathered rock formations stand atop a grassy ...
08/05/2013: Alone on Jeju Island, climbing the grassy slopes of Sunrise Peak. A towering cliff covered in greenery rises dramatically besi...
06/30/2013: Quiet mornings at the Temple of the Nirvana Fish. My meditation: walking along the forest stream, Watching the way the sun brea...
06/16/2013: A ropeway ticket from Aso Ropeway, featuring an illustration of a cable car suspended on a green mountain backdrop. The ticket ...
06/15/2013: Noxious fumes rise from a green pool, At the heart of Mount Aso. Pinpoint bugs bite my arms, my neck. Thick clouds of steam ri...
06/09/2013: Raindrops cover a window, blurring the view of a distant island across a body of water, under a cloudy, overcast sky.
06/09/2013: A distant view of a traditional Japanese castle tower, framed by thick stone walls and lush trees, showcasing the fortress-like...
06/06/2013: Once, in Fukuoka... A large stone torii gate standing among tall trees, framed by lush green leaves with sunlight filtering th...
05/26/2013: Jiri, a mountain of the gods. Large boulders with engraved characters surrounded by green trees, creating a peaceful, historic...
05/24/2013: To Oedo... Tall, jagged rock formations rising out of the calm ocean waters, surrounded by smaller rocks and cliffs. A rocky ...
05/19/2013: A row of meticulously pruned trees with dense, round-shaped foliage, extending into the distance across a green grassy field. ...
05/17/2013: A vibrant display of colorful lanterns in various shades of pink, yellow, green, and orange, strung up around a traditional Kor...
05/17/2013: All that grows on the hills of Mount Geumjeong. A scenic view of rugged, jagged rock formations amidst a lush green forest, wi...
05/12/2013: Among the ruins of Cheongdo. A view of an ancient stone enclosure with thick, weathered stone walls under a clear blue sky. Th...
05/05/2013: On a Sunday... A beach scene with people wading in the shallow water and groups of individuals learning to windsurf or paddleb...
05/04/2013: A towering statue of Buddha, seen from a low angle, with a peaceful expression. One hand is raised in the gesture of protection...
04/28/2013: A traditional Korean temple with ornate, colorful wooden eaves and tiled roofs. The temple grounds have paved pathways leading ...
04/27/2013: A close-up of deep red maple leaves with a colorful, geometric-patterned wall in the background, creating a vibrant contrast. ...
04/21/2013: Shadows of the bridge over Nakdong. A black-and-white shot of a long bridge extending across the water, captured in silhouette...
04/21/2013: A striking black-and-white image of a towering cliff rising above the ocean. The cliff’s layers of rock are sharply defined, an...
04/20/2013: The bluster and rain of Jiri Mountain. This image captures a misty forest scene, where fog envelops the trees and softens the ...
04/13/2013: This image captures a serene sunset over a beach, with the sun hanging low in the sky as it casts a warm orange and purple glow...
04/13/2013: A town where everything is made of color, Even the rust of metal roofs, gold dust over indigo. This image shows a narrow, stee...
04/05/2013: Petals on a neon river. Cherry blossoms in electric light. This image depicts a multi-tiered pagoda-style structure illuminate...
02/10/2013: Climbing Seorak Mountain in old tennis shoes... A stranger gives us hot soup and says he loves America. I nod and smile. I don’...
01/20/2013: I am here. This image shows two stacks of balanced stones, also known as cairns, placed on a rocky outcrop by the sea. The sky...
01/19/2013: Winter beauty on Geumjeong Mountain. This image captures a rugged mountainous landscape with prominent rock formations in the ...
12/27/2012: Alone on Koh Rong. A peaceful beach scene with a tree branch framing the top of the image, casting shadows on the soft, sandy ...
12/26/2012: The orange sand of Bamboo Island. A serene beach scene with a small wooden boat anchored in shallow, clear waters near the sho...
12/24/2012: The mysteries of Angkor. Temple ruins emerging from the cocoon of the jungle, Only to keep their secrets close. A peaceful sce...
11/25/2012: A narrow, winding stone path curves along a grassy ridge toward a rocky hilltop in the distance. The path is bordered by tall, ...
10/31/2012: A panoramic view from a hilltop with tall grasses gently swaying in the foreground. The landscape extends into a wide valley be...
10/01/2012: A rugged cliffside overlooking a calm ocean, with large rocks and dry, golden grass covering the slope. A solitary, balanced ro...
09/29/2012: A person stands confidently on a large, jagged rock formation overlooking the sea. They are dressed in dark clothing, holding a...
08/26/2012: In South Korea for a new season of life. Evening at Gwangalli Bridge. A scenic view of a large suspension bridge extending acr...
07/03/2012: What the heart feels when the moon shines over Lake Baringo. A serene nighttime scene over a body of water, with the full moon...
10/11/2011: Pages for an exhibit retrospective of Water & Dreams. This minimalist graphic features thin, all-uppercase text that reads: ...
06/11/2011: I am a Little World This black-and-white photograph captures a close-up side profile of a person, with their face partially ob...
04/16/2010: Water & Dreams There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and str...
01/29/2010: This image shows three pencil sketches of insect head designs, arranged side by side. Each sketch features symmetrical, stylize...
11/30/2009: This minimalist graphic features the word "elementum" in lowercase white text on a black background. To the right of the text, ...
07/06/2009: Illustrations for The Stones, a short story originally told by my grandfather. This pencil sketch depicts a weathered, hollow ...
09/19/2008: Motion. Light. A crash. A dream. With @lejeunerenard. This abstract photograph showcases jagged, swirling streaks of yellow, o...
05/02/2008: Views from a dorm room window. This photograph captures a hazy, golden sunset over a town or campus. The sun is low on the hor...
06/15/2007: A charcoal still-life drawing featuring a wooden chair in the foreground. Behind the chair, a bottle and an animal skull are vi...
04/30/2007: A surreal black-and-white drawing featuring two large, intense eyes staring forward with tears or liquid dripping down from the...
10/22/2005: This pencil sketch shows a perspective drawing of a grand architectural building, likely a cathedral or similar Gothic structur...