January 2011
17 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
The National (37)
Sufjan Stevens (23)
Okkervil River (21)
Beirut (20)
Ryan Adams (18)
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The Sciences Sing a Lullabye, Albert Goldbarth
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch. You...
Today, Like Every Other Day, Jalaluddin Rumi
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Les Ponts, Rimbaud
Des ciels gris de cristal. Un bizarre dessin de ponts, ceux-ci droits, ceux-là bombés, d’autres descendant ou obliquant en angles sur les premiers, et ces figures se renouvelant dans les autres circuits éclairés du canal, mais tous tellement longs et légers que les rives, chargées de dômes, s’abaissent et s’amoindrissent. Quelques-uns de ces ponts sont encore chargés de masures....
