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Friday, February 28, 2003

Mary Rising Higgins.



Mary Rising Higgins is a retired primary school teacher who takes up old-timey free verse, mostly in the forms of neoclassically-eviscerated lines, long and short, and occasional prose-like paragraphs. Page 22 in her new book )locus TIDES(( begins:

[centered toward right margin]

topaz bird
momentaneous
here centers bend
extremes live from
speech box talismans
take a turn salt in the wound contrapose


[flush left margin]

consider certain conditions to separate you from pain
casual starting lines arrived in


[centered mid-page]

one among many quick build conflicts
[…]

We're in the middle of a 10-page poem titled "dripstone / model." This selection captures a scrupulosity of tone ("topaz bird", "wound contrapose") I might otherwise find repellant were there no offsetting force directing me to hold off judgment. With regard to diction, I can't say I admire her poetic "talisman," flirtation with cliché ("salt in the wound") or neologisms like "momentaneous." What keeps me reading is Higgins's metaconversation with the processing of these "casual starting lines" and "quick build conflicts." More, when I reread "here centers bend / extremes live," I begin to see this as notation from an intelligence making innumerable domestic 'starts,' dressing 'wounds,' etc. Six pages earlier, the poem opens: "light snow fall morning white and all / then counter with pepper to balance the heavily salted meat…" This is a recipe, of course, write what you see and think you see, spice with conflict, and talk about the seeing and seasoning.

Although the recipe seems limited, the question is, tasty? I find Higgins improves from page to page. For example, a too-literal knickknack reference, "a small dragon handled cup" (p 24) gets recycled as "heaven's brush dragon" (p 64), and then repurposed in this whoa-boy sentence: "Rag deep dragons transpire to catch shoulder perimeter outcomes" (p 91). In her second poem, "to measure," Higgins inserts a prose block subtitled ")APPROACH(" that starts: "Flyby visuals mandate. Direction of travel views differ through a part expected reflects from." This is a better-than-ok representation of partially obscured vision in motion. I enjoy contrasting this word-mobile with another from her final poem: "getting from here to there by / ghetto frame card cliche rifts." The second mobile moves with less fracture, but with more awareness of process ("cliche rifts") and self-critique ("ghetto frame card").

Higgins's ghetto is the Arizona desert. Such a place directs one's attention to sky, leaf, insects, and a number of bird species. It also provides space and vistas for the self-paring-down that seems very much a prerequisite to clearer thinking. In a prose block subtitled ")PERSPECTIVE(" Higgins discloses her own space and vista for making verse:

Up from technoshadow's metal fatigue. Attract shield. Somewhere around liaison stalk closer pares. Where it leads until it looks like a first-time point of light summit-fanned. It could follow even finer structures. Leonid starwound fountain. Coincidental plainsong departure. How you form and step out from inner speech.
[…]

I read Higgins with the feeling that she updates urges toward tonal perfection found in modernist poetry, not unlike a hermetic Marianne Moore, say. But there are elements of deeper if more confounding self-revelation coupled with egocentric language ("Leonid starwound fountain") that mark Higgins as our contemporary. Her "inner speech" is sometimes at the extremity of self-consciousness, often polyvalent, reminiscent in two ways, then, of Hannah Weiner:

[…] string scree-e-e-e-e how vigilance interferes the series of yelps a singing and we are prepared though not by messengers bigger and bigger pictures digest constructs of dreaming that way in mean verdance and you should be this way's dream photo not modernist the way you expect it […]

Higgins's muses seem mostly female. She includes six pages of "Notes" at the end of )locus TIDES(( that cite snippets of text borrowed from mostly women poets, Kathleen Fraser, Karen Mac Cormack, Sheila Murphy, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Gervitz, Alice Notley, Kristin Prevallet, Julie Patton, and Elaine Equi among the more familiar names, as well as women poets from Arizona and a number of European countries. The text sampling reinforces the impression that Higgins is conversing with her own poetry in this sense by picking up distinctly feminine if not feminist pieces as "starting lines" to build her many kinds of "conflict."

I've said that I spot progress or improvement from page to page. I need to qualify this by restating what should be obvious, how satisfying many of the first and middle sections of )locus TIDES(( are. Still, her last page of poetry, another prose block, wildly confirms a deepening self-conciousness or progress, if you will: "Learning curve push skews through apple the orange transliterates. During that historic walk to the ATM dragging your plank of dark light, at whiplash collar check off the goal applies one time." I can't find a briefer example of Higgins's awareness of self-struggle -- dark light stands in as her 'conflict' in writing important-sounding poetry vs. the 'casual start' implicit in such a quotidian reference as the ATM. Indeed, her sense of struggle is summed up as a 'learning curve' that allows her to evoke not only the literal orange but also the skew(er)ed, transliterated apple. More fundamental, that struggle is also apparent in her realization that the goal for her is to capture this one event that happens only this "one time."

)locus TIDES((, Mary Rising Higgins. 2002. Potes & Poets Press. 14.00 ISBN 1-893541-78-9


posted byJack 12:50 PM

Thursday, February 27, 2003


Creeps3.



Enough?



posted byJack 8:46 AM

Creeps2.



Mr. President. Did you and your lady friend…

I never had sex…

With all due respect, sir, we have an affidavit…

I never had sex with tha…

Plus testimony from Secret Service agents…

I never had sex with that…wo…

If I can just play this video here…

I never had sex with that…woma…

We have samples of DNA, sir, showing the semen here is…

Depends on what your definition of is is…


posted byJack 8:37 AM

Creeps.



Creeps. Isn't that the gray-is-the-new-black media arts?


posted byJack 8:27 AM

Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Unfinished Account.



I'm concentrating on getting my poem playlist tidy for a reading coming up in a couple of weeks. So I've entered a self-protective phase, maybe something similar to what Jordan has been writing the last few days: "Mounting anxiety about self-disclosure..." fur example. Easy to post poems when they have no place to go, but am holding back right now to protect a connection to anything I wind up reading in front of people a little later on. Hey, that doesn't make much sense.

Well, if I'm going to keep on entertaining myself (and that is always a goal for me in writing) I need to find out what these poems are about, formally. It's a little too close to the reading to work this out under the semi-public lamplight of a blog. That's my connection to Jordan's anxiety, I suppose, although I think Jordan is more preoccupied with personhood-striptease, whereas I can't even get that internal about my anxiety. I'm protecting procedure at this point. Procedure is such an obvious component to content, I feel, I want, in the end, to insert all sorts of 'evidence' of how I get to say the little I assert in a given piece. Like: I continue phoning my seven mistresses and keep the conversations going, not knowing which phrases I overhear will be inserted into my play within. But the insertions are after the phone calls, solitary events (I believe), sorting data, messing it up if that's ok, etc. (No, that part of the process is not entirely solitary, either, but I digress.) I have to lose the mistresses' phone numbers at odd points (like now), just to get closer to feeling solitary & to keep them and me interested, no?

Payphone = blog?

Maybe I can let a poem go I'll never read in public.

In relation to the poem Habermas I want quick execution shhhhhesh.
Need but, shhh. That's execution. Need never bothered me.

In relation to the poem Habermas I want to hear what others say,
but the last two lines are shiny architecture of matter.

Rawls poems me. And o, etc., etc.


That's truly bathetic. The poem has nothing (much) to do with current biases of mine. Like so many others, I'm fixated on the war, loss of democratic principles and governance procedures -- that word again, only this time writ extremely large. The snippet above carries stark references to the last liberal prime number among us, John Rawls, but how inarticulate and superficial to use him in this way. I'm conflicted whether to go into criteria for justice, question how these may apply to our historical moment (that phrase seems appropriate now). Perhaps these few lines are directions -- self-directions?? -- to confront Rawls poetically? Could this be amusing? More soon.



posted byJack 9:29 AM

Monday, February 24, 2003

Daddyo.



I've been asked by my French publisher to put together a new collected works, which I'm calling Daddyo (in French). I'm not a podium-kicking type, so I was a little put off singled out this way, thinking at first this has to be lame trickery from Kent Johnson or even Señor Hess, finally reasoning, however, I've done this to moi-même.

Warm-up.

Proposed Titles for Daddyo

Une 18ème Lettre de Siècle
1951
2 Poésies de l'Ohara Monogatari
3 Poésies Au sujet de Kenneth Koch
3 Requiems Pour Un Jeune Oncle
Vent de 34 Milles
3ème EL d'Avenue
Un Avortement
Au sujet de Courbet
Adieu Au Normand, À la Fève Jour À Joan et Au Jean-Paul
Aventures Dans La Vie
Après Wyatt
l'Après-midi
Encore, John Keats, Ou Le Poteau du Basilic
Agression
Un avion sifflent (après Heine)
Aix-en-Provence
Tout Ce Gaz
Alma
Américain
Anacrostic
Animaux
Variations d'Ann Arbor
Réponse À Voznesensky et À Evtushenko
l'Anthologie de Jours Isolés
Inquiétude
Appoggiaturas
La Saison d'Abricot
l'Arborétum
Les Argonautes
Comme prévu
Cendres Samedi Après-midi
Chez Joan
À la Librairie de la Danse de Kamin
Au Fond de la Décharge Il Y a Sorte d'Ome de Bugle
Au Vieil Endroit
Aubade
Aus Einem Avril
Autobiographia Literaria
Avenue Maria
Avenue A
Baareld
Ballade
Ballade Numéro 4
Barbizon
Les Baigneurs
Salle de bains
Partie de Plage
Bière Pour Le Petit déjeuner
Berdie
Burnoose de la Facture
l'École de la Facture de New York
Biographia Letteraria
Biotherm (pour facture Berkson)
Le Théâtre de Camp d'Oiseau
Birdie
Blocs
Territoire Bleu
Les Alésages
Boston
Frères
Cambridge
Un Appareil-photo
Cantate
Capitaine Bada
Capitaines Courageux
Causerie d'A.f.
Un Chardin Nécessitant Le Nettoyage
Cheyenne
Chez Jane
Chicago
Une Légende Chinoise
Choses Passageres
Carte de Noël Pour honorer Hartigan
Un Hiver de Ville
Les Nuages Vont Doucement
Le Clown
Clytemnestra
Cohasset
Colloque Sentimental
Variations Commerciales
Concert Champetre
Cornkind
Le Critique
Colline de Corneille
Danses Avant Le Mur
Jour et nuit En 1952
Madame Died de Jour
Cher Jap
La mort
Derange Sur Un Pont de L'adour
Dialogues
Dido
Digression Sur Le Nombre L, 1948
Dolce Colloquio
Rêve de Berlin
Dérives D'une Chose Qui Affichent Berkson Noté
Boire
Le Batteur
Jours Ducaux
Mondrian Tôt
Dès l'abord Dimanche
Fleuve Est
Pâques
La Main d'Edwin
Élégie (enthousiaste et en jours perdus d'excédent d'anguish)
Élégie (eau salée. Et Visages Mourant)
Facture d'Embarassing
Approche Ennemie d'Avions
Essai Sur Le Modèle
F. (missive et promenade) I. #53
F.m.i. 6/25/61
F.o.i.
F.y.i. (prix de Beaute)
F.y.i. (la brasserie va au lac)
Échecs de Ressort
Fantaisie (sur les vers russes) pour Alfred Leslie
Imagination
Loin du DES Lilas et La Rue Pergolese de Porte
Peinture Préférée Dans La Métropolitaine
Février
Torse femelle
Premières Danses
Cinq Poésies
Jour de Drapeau
Sonore Affectueux
Pour Un Dauphin
Pour Bob Rauschenberg
Pour David Schubert
Pour La Grace, Après Une Partie
Pour Le Doyen de James
Pour Janice et Kenneth Au Voyage
Pour Poulenc
Pendant La Nouvelle Année Chinoise et Pour La Facture Berkson
Quatre Petites Élégies 1. Écrit Dans Le Sable À l'Île de l'Eau
Quatre Petites Élégies 2. Peu d'élégie
Quatre Petites Élégies 3. Doyen d'Orbite, 30 septembre 1955
Quatre Petites Élégies 4. Une Cérémonie Pour Un de Mes Morts
Funnies
Galanta
Gamin
Se lever en avant de quelqu'un (le soleil)
Glazunoviana, Ou Jour Commémoratif
Gli Amanti
Midi de Bon Vendredi
Au revoir À la Grande Île Principale Impeccable
Central Grand
Le Frelon Vert
Gregory Corso : Essence
Haine
Avoir Un Coke Avec Vous
Ici À New York Nous Avons Beaucoup d'Ennui Avec
Heremaphrodite
Hieronymus Bosch
Une Colline
Variations Historiques
Un Hommage
Hommage À Andre Gide
Hommage Au Cap Mootch de Pasternak
Hommage À Rrose Selavy
Homosexualité
Hôtel Particulier
Hôtel Transylvanie
Chambre
Comment Les Roses Deviennent Noires
Comment Y arriver
Le Chasseur
Klaxons de Chasse
J'aime La Manière Qu'elle Disparaît
Une Image de Leda
Image du Bouddha Prêchant
En faveur de Son Temps
Dans L'Hôpital
Dans La Mémoire de Mes Sentiments ; À la Grace Hartigan
Dans Les Films
Intérieur (avec Jane)
Invincibility
Il Semble Loin Parti et Doux Maintenant
Le Jade Madonna
Jane À Douze
Jane Éveillé
Se baigner de Jane
Je Voudrais Voir
La Veste de Joe
Anniversaire de Bouton de John
Joseph Cornell
Jove
Katy
Kitville
La Par de L'amour Avait Passe
Larry
La Configuration du Roman des Associations
Pousser des feuilles Par La Floride
Le Liban
Légende
Étiquettes Jaunes de Les
Les Luths
Sortons
Une Lettre Au Lapin
Liebeslied
La Vie Sur Terre
La Lumière Avance Par Elle-même
La Lumière Appuie
Comme
Lignes Pendant Certains Morceaux de Musique
Lignes Pour Les Biscuits de Fortune
Lignes À un Ami Enfoncé
Lignes Tout en Lisant l'Image de Coleridge
Lignes Écrites Dans Une Jeunesse Crue
Lisztiana
Lisztiana, Beaucoup Plus tard
Peu d'élégie Pour Antonio Machado
Journal intime de Voyage
Locarno
Louise
Amour
Amour (être perdu)
l'Amoureux
l'Heure de Déjeuner
Macaronis
Madrid
Madrigal Pour Un Chat Mort Appelé Julia
Manifeste
Âne de Mary Desti
Jeudi saint Samedi
Mayakovsky
Méditations En cas d'urgence
Petit déjeuner Mélancolique
Melmoth Le Wanderer
Mémoire de Sergei O
Mémoires de Facture
Poésie Métaphysique
Une Guitare Mexicaine
Cimetière Militaire
Un Soldat Moderne
Matin
La Mère du Drame Allemand
S'élever de Montagne
Mozart Chemisier
Mme Bertha Burger
Le MUSE Considéré En tant qu'Amoureux de Démon
Musique
Muy Bien
Mon Coeur
Ma Chaleur
Naphte
Nouvelles Particules du Soleil
Newsboy
Le Prochain Oiseau Vers l'Australie
Pensées de Nuit Dans Le Village de Greenwich
Nocturne
Une Note À Harold Fondren
Une Note À John Ashbery
Maintenant que Je Suis À Madrid et Peux Penser
Octobre
Heure Octobre 26 1952 De 10:30
Ode (une idée de justice peut être précieuse)
Ode (à Joseph Lesueur) sur la flèche ce Flieth par Day
Ode Sur La Causalité
Ode Sur La Convoitise
Ode Sur Necrophilia
Ode Le Jour de Saint Cecilia
Ode À la Joie
Ode à Michael Goldberg ('naissance de s et d'autres naissances)
Ode À Tanaquil Leclercq
Ode À Willem de Kooning
Ode : Salut Aux Poèts Français de Nègre
Le Vieux Machiniste
Jardin Olive
Sur Un Anniversaire de Kenneth
Sur Une Montagne
Sur Un Pasage En Watt de Beckett et Au sujet de Geo. Montgomery
Sur Regarder La La Grande Jatte, Le Tsar Pleuré À nouveau
Sur l'Anniversaire de Rachmaninoff
Sur l'Anniversaire #158 De Rachmaninoff
Sur l'Anniversaire #161 De Rachmaninoff
Sur l'anniversaire de Rachmaninoff (Windows bleu, les dessus de toit bleus)
Sur l'anniversaire de Rachmaninoff (je suis si heureux que des fleuves de Larry)
Sur l'anniversaire de Rachmaninoff (vite ! Une Dernière Poésie Avant que J'aille)
Sur Brithday de Rachmannoff et Au sujet d'Arshile Gorki
Le Jour de Saint Adalgisa
Sur Voir Washington des Fleuves de Larry Croiser Le Delaware
Sur Le Chemin Au San Remo
l'Opéra
Oranges : 12 Pastorals
Péché Original
Donner sur Le Fleuve
Crainte de Panique
Un Dialogue Pastoral
Un Dialogue Pastoral
Port de Perle
Poésie Personnelle
Prose d'En de Petit Poeme
Les Pipes de la Casserole
Pistachier Au Chateau Noir
Endroits Pour Le Salvador d'Oscar
Une Pensée Plaisante de Whitehead
Poésie
Poésie
Poésie
Poésie
Poésie (aux Chinamen de nuit sautez)
Poésie Au Dessus de l'Échelon
Poésie (toute la soudain tout le monde)
Poésie (tous les miroirs dans le monde)
Poésie (bien que je suis une demi-heure)
Poésie (et demain matin à 8 heures à Springfield)
Poésie (en tant que vous agenouillement)
Poésie (dee Dum, Dee Dum, Dum Dum, Dee Da)
Poésie (un dieu ! Amour ! Le soleil ! Toutes les Chères et Singulières Choses !)
Poésie (la haine est seulement une de beaucoup de réponses)
Poésie (il peut se reposer. Il L'a béni et L'a blessé)
Poésie (il l'a aperçue à l'heure actuelle du rappel)
Poésie (je ne suis pas sûr il y a un traitement)
Poésie (je ne connais pas pendant que j'obtiens Wha


Finally, for Señor Hess.


posted byJack 8:49 AM

Thursday, February 20, 2003

Blog Chatter.



Just picked up on a couple talked-past ideas.

Foaming hull. (For bloggers in need of formatting and reconstruction.)

Oy Señor Hess. Not to put ya in foaming hull, but you're a much, much better blog writer than formal essayist. That piece on Watten (and Reznikoff??) is a slew of text-lifts from a galaxy that is not ours. Are you really not in Vegas?

Let's start a collection and send our favorite crank blogger to Cornell?

Inspiration or daily penance? The minute I decided there was no poem in it, I stopped blogging right then. It was December 2000 or maybe January 03, something strangely warming about the sorbet, I lost my place in that new Player Registry and messed up on so many art world sales I had to find other work.

Here, Ok?

Nada, love, let's have your own wrap on your reading last nite.


posted byJack 9:05 AM

Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Two Views of Brandenburg Gate.






posted byJack 7:04 AM

Saturday, February 15, 2003

War Poem from Another County.



Kent Johnson sends this "at O hour minus a few ticks."

Baghdad


Oh, little crown of iron forged to likeness of imam's face,
what are you doing in this circle of flaming inspectors and bakers?

And little burnt dinner all set to be eaten
(and crispy girl all dressed with scarf for school),
what are you doing near this shovel for dung-digging,
hissing like ice-cubes in ruins of little museum?

And little shell of bank on which flakes of assets fall,
can't I still withdraw my bonds for baby?

Good night moon.
Good night socks and good night cuckoo clocks.

Good night little bedpans and a trough where once there was an inn
(urn of dashed pride),
what are you doing beside little wheelbarrow
beside some fried chickens?

And you, ridiculous wheels spinning on mailman's truck,
truck with ashes of letter from crispy girl all dressed with scarf for school,
why do you seem like American experimental poets going nowhere
on little exercise bikes?

Good night barbells and ballet dancer's shoes
under plastered ceilings of Saddam Music Hall.

Good night bladder of Helen Vendler and a jar from Tennessee.
(though what are these doing here in Baghdad?)

Good night blackened ibis and some keys.
Good night, good night.

(And little mosque popped open like a can, which same as factory of
flypaper has blown outward, covering the shape of man with it (with
mosque): He stumbles up Martyr's Promenade. What does it matter
who is speaking, he murmurs and mutters, head a little bit on fire.
Good night to you too.)

Good night moon.
Good night poor people who shall inherit the moon.

Good night first editions of Das Kapital, Novum Organum,
The Symbolic Affinities between Poetry Blogs and Oil Wells,
and the Koran.

Good night nobody.

Good night Mr. Kent, good night, for now you must
soon wake up and rub your eyes and know that you are dead.


-- Kent Johnson


posted byJack 7:19 AM

Friday, February 14, 2003

That Honest Shed.


He's surer
Insured
In all thermo matters,
Refills an election beast-

Shill running this street,
Which hams, "goo. Do buy!
Isn't HUD that honest shed now?"
The hated tune's an outer cray-

Fish, slick in foam. To him, horror
Is often hearsay.
Best sup and play hung mien,
As sins uncon the Bengali,

Alles Freundes
. Shaved gin
Fronts as treat, canned or cobbed.
He shorts his, qualifies
In this, sighs, or falls off.


posted byJack 7:46 AM

Wednesday, February 12, 2003

A War Poem.



Dreamlike class struggle is no one's financing walk into shear. Proportion turns over desire for no government so this is some level from the front door version, the edge to common sight in slow arrest at the dawn of a new jury. Boardrooms fill with the Nixo-Beat where the flowers are. The egg whites in a spare, bubby zeal to wipe out traitors more, not properly issued to commentary, altering the best snooze clinic in a suppo-pow.

The accidental has flight school wipe. Coordinates everywhere, and or, the squirm of it, the advent, set alone too. Ax it. There isn't even an "it's rippled!" where similar buzzing length and breadth end describing the bed turned down if you're awake to spar in fusing speakers like where the writ is in use to put on my car keys. It's not that stages of violence pine for brilliant shape, grief of a ceiling failing its semblance. Prime shots clear the air enough by comparison. A question knows form is neither.


posted byJack 1:00 PM

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Entelechy.



It's February, lots of snow. We're on our way out of this place after a short film in which Jacques Derrida says the eyes never age. Even as I resist it, I draw closer to the 17th century scroll occupied by three Heian lords, unadorned fabric staked to the ground as their backdrop, a blend of tarp and a silk threadbare enough to tie up the breeze. In the middle of the film Jacques recalls his mama crying, "You have a pain in your mother." A covariant on how a thin fabric constitutes the eyes' hold over the place and over the physical moment depicted in the scroll. Before this or maybe after, Janet goes into the ladies room as I watch the ice coating steps to the garden outside the cafeteria. That courtyard, one of a pair, was more striking when it was inaccessible from the coffee area. I remember it emptier than today, emptier in its conservative, Olmsted taste, not just empty in feeling, even with more snow and the ivy along one wall opposite me more indistinguishable then, the trees fuller, weaker somehow than they are now. Perhaps younger trees were inserted? But I take in this courtyard as it is and hold it as Janet comes back and we ride the escalator somewhere else.


posted byJack 7:30 AM

Saturday, February 08, 2003

Storms.



the States United storms into
into States the storms United
United storms into the States
into the United States storms
States the into United storms
States into United the storms
United States the storms into
States United storms the into
storms the into States United
storms United into States the
into United the storms States
into storms States the United
States United into the storms
the United storms States into
the United States into storms
storms the into States United
into States United storms the
the States storms into United
the storms United into States
into United the States storms
States into the United storms
States storms United into the
storms the into United States
United the States into storms



posted byJack 7:13 AM

Wednesday, February 05, 2003

US Makes a Case for War.



posted byJack 2:00 PM

Sunday, February 02, 2003

Parasomnia as Speech.



Dreamlike class struggle is not sure discourse products remain action.

A new clip starts. Another force writes the edge of dippers in slag. In the end government theory grows up on a farm in Minnesota, goes on chomping pork, trusts no governing.

Rants on the ear rule speakers' aims symbolically, sometimes, like when jurors read jurors' obligations where the writ is the observance and therefore recourse to the great narratives prescribing the observance.

Mother Nature is the focus. One afternoon while napping I read this confusional book. We were at the dawn of a golden age of reader response, Chip writes, the entire room filled with wine.

It's not that oblique. Beat the egg whites in a separate bowl. My conspicuous, shabby desire is to wipe out the parts already hit. Clean up what's not there, not properly inside possums of unknowing you already did what I bellowed for.

Anyway, the best snooze clinic in a supporting role has a steady girl now. She has flight school whipped. We have downtown everywhere. Coordinates everywhere, and apt to lapse into vibrancy for the squirm of it, the adventure, the five-hour walk from the B2 exit. There isn't even a front door. We're in this world. It's rippled where similar destruction and hope befall dharmic arousal, the length and breadth of mourning it away.

Owning a tavern for a while posits a second love describing the points of its chief, unimmaculate obligation. So this is different for us. I'm awake at some level, and put on my shirt, go to my purse and get my car keys.


posted byJack 10:25 AM

 
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