June 16, 2009

PS22


June 8, 2009

Tan Hong Ming in Love


May 27, 2009

Very Big Thoughts

It was very big to think about everything and everywhere.

- James Joyce

 

…but it has never been easier.

- Steven Johnson


April 13, 2009

Never Tire of Seeing


March 18, 2009

Growing Sentences, or How to Write

Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace on kottke.org

Being the Result of One Man’s Fed-upped-ness With ‘How to Write’ Books Not Actually Showing You How to Write.



January 5, 2009

Hunting the Phoenix


You must seek
the ashy nest itself
if you hope to find
charred feathers, smouldering flightbones,
and a twist of singing flame
rekindling.

Denise Levertov from Breathing the Water


December 28, 2008

What’s all the Fighting for?

From Good Magazine


December 21, 2008

Variation on a Theme by Rilke

A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me - a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
and struck my shoulder as if with
the flat of a sword, granting me
honor and a task. The day’s blow
rang out, metallic - or it was I, a bell awakened,
and what I heard was my whole self
saying and singing what it knew: I can.

Denise Levertov from Breathing the Water


December 17, 2008

Goodbye Old Friend


December 7, 2008

On Song [fragment 568]

O for mortals, what
Power there is in songs,
What greatest happiness
That can make bearable this
Short narrow channel of life!

Sophocles, “On Song [Fragment 568]