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2009

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reckon: furryrabbits: “Frank O’Hara’s ‘Meditations in an...
Jul 30th
“The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that...”
— Flannery O’Conner, Wise Blood...
Jul 29th
intweetion: laultimainocencia: (via madrelobo)
Jul 28th
Listen Listen
“Sisters of Mercy,” Leonard Cohen I like to pretend that I am the “you,”...
Jul 27th
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you...”
— Seymour:  An Introduction,...
Jul 27th
benjaminhilts: bellechoses: WWII poster I need one of...
Jul 27th
Sarah King, via weheartit
Jul 26th
0101 (via daytrips) and another had been found, another...
Jul 26th
104A Evening you gather back all that dazzling dawn has...
Jul 26th
but I am not someone who likes to wound rather I have a...
Jul 26th
amayadori: (via Ultra Low Oxygen) Like a dandelion. Maybe I...
Jul 26th

incurably morbid

Friend (L): [almost drowned out by thunder] Did you hear that? It's making me crazy! Whenever I hear thunder my first thought is that an atomic bomb has been detonated over new york city. I instinctively want to either dive under the bed or run to the window to look for mushroom clouds.
Me: I know exactly what you mean! I get that way with fireworks. Even on days when you'd logically expect to hear fireworks, like, oh, the fourth of july, my first thought at the sound of them isn't, 'Oh, fireworks, I should go look at them.' It's, 'Canons! Someone is firing canons at the bay! We're being attacked by pirates!' Then my brain jumps to the idea of giants, and then to the Rapture. It takes me a little while to self-talk myself into acceptance of fireworks.
L: I expect World War Three to break out any day now and you default to pirates and giants. What does that say about our psyches?
Me: I read too much fantasy as a child and have permanently slipped through the cracks of reality, and you...
L: I need a lobotomy?
Thunder: claps.
We: flinch audibly
L: Let's talk about something a little cheerier.
Me: Yeah, yeah, okay, um... Oh! I read this great book the other day. It was about the Franklin Expedition...
Jul 25th
Dialing for Poems: The phone as a medium for...
Jul 24th
“The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a...”
— David Lynch. (via matthewb)...
Jul 24th

Things Shouldn't Be So Hard / Kay Ryan

Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard by Kay Ryan A life should leave deep tracks: ruts where she ...
Jul 23rd
“I love cliches because they are usually so beautiful....”
— Kay Ryan, current poet...
Jul 23rd
Disembodied Marionette Hands (via Curious Expeditions)
Jul 23rd
Every book Art Garfunkel has read since 1968
Jul 22nd
“It does me good to do difficult things. It does not prevent...”
— Vincent van Gogh, from a...
Jul 22nd
benjaminhilts: Benjamin Hilts - Greenhour A trip to...
Jul 22nd
Advance8264 (via PeppermintChick) Newly discovered...
Jul 20th
blueroom-writing on the wall (via lauren.rabbit) ...
Jul 19th
“Get a radio or a phonograph capable of the most extreme loudness possible, and sit down and...
Jul 19th
benjaminhilts: “The Ghost of Bernadette Soubirous” circa...
Jul 18th
Criterion for a best friend: call unsolicited in the middle of the night to read me philosophy...
Jul 18th
(via lauren.rabbit)
Jul 18th
benhasten: The Ring Toss by Clarence Hudson White from...
Jul 17th
“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three...”
— Flann O’Brien, the first...
Jul 17th
(via poursoi)
Jul 17th

To John Ashbery

To John Ashbery Frank O’Hara I can’t believe there’s not another world where we will sit ...
Jul 16th
Starting Right with Bees (via Woolgathersome) What book...
Jul 16th
Tarkovsky3 (via Woolgathersome) “Polaroids taken by...
Jul 14th
intweetion: locusta:> energyface:> mollylambert:...
Jul 14th
Antoine Doinel (via Indie Wench) Still of young Jean-Pierre...
Jul 14th
belmondo… avez vous d’ feu? (via Indie Wench)
Jul 14th
Camus as a child. “From the moment absurdity is...
Jul 13th
photo by Man Ray, via vintagephoto.
Jul 13th
“All of them began to laugh spontaneously because they knew...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is...
Jul 12th
“I have a superficial, decorative concept of deep love and...”
— The Book of Disquiet, Fernando...
Jul 10th
reckon: RECKON -
Jul 10th
benjaminhilts: .PICAPIXELS / tumblr - Darren Holmes
Jul 10th
Listen Listen
And I’m lonesome when you’re around And I’m never lonesome when I’m by...
Jul 9th
luminol: “sleeping pills, like Therese” - Jeffrey...
Jul 9th
The cover of this month’s Poets & Writers...
Jul 8th
Lace and Flora, via weheartit
Jul 8th
sailingonthesea: courtneyc: The roundbelly cowfish is the...
Jul 8th
portraitoftheartistasayoungman: Mark Brabant “The Wire...
Jul 7th
Writers' rooms | Special Reports |...
Jul 6th
Will Self’s writing room. The Guardian. (I have not...
Jul 6th
Roald Dahl’s writing room. The Guardian. “The...
Jul 6th
A.S. Byatt’s writing room, via The Guardian. ...
Jul 6th
flyingkites: teamrock: We heart it / Visual bookmark for...
Jul 5th
benjaminhilts: David Doubilet via 2photo.ru These are...
Jul 5th
benjaminhilts: driving home (via quemas™)
Jul 4th
actually very small—thumbprintsized.
Jul 4th
“Tell me something to amuse me, smut or a bloody good...”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Jul 4th

bon bon il est un pays

I realized the other night that I have this poem almost memorized without ever intending it to be. I...
Jul 4th
luminol: edt: L’intero testo di Moby Dick su Wordle. E’...
Jul 4th