“Balthus”
“Telepathy”
“Millenials”
"Steadier Footing" - Death Cab for Cutie
From the Gospel of John
“…love is from God;
everyone who loves is born of God
and knows God.”
- 1 John 4:7
Nation of Language - "This Fractured Mind"
Voyager 1 Approaches Saturn, 1980
The Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Forlane (from Concert N0. 4) - Francois Couperin
Ruth Stone - "Curtains"
Curtains
Putting up new curtains,
other windows intrude.
As though it is that first winter in Cambridge
when you and I had just moved in.
Now cold borscht alone in a bare kitchen.
What does it mean if I say this years later?
Listen, last night
I am on a crying jag
with my landlord, Mr. Tempesta.
I sneaked in two cats.
He screams, "No pets! No pets!"
I become my Aunt Virginia,
proud but weak in the head.
I remember Anna Magnani.
I throw a few books. I shout.
He wipes his eyes and opens his hands.
OK OK keep the dirty animals
but no nails in the walls.
We cry together.
I am so nervous, he says.
I want to dig you up and say, look,
it's like the time, remember,
when I ran into our living room naked
to get rid of that fire inspector.
See what you miss by being dead?
- Ruth Stone
Valerie June - Long Lonely Road
The Horses of San Marco
Hashiveinu / Return Again, from Machzor for the Days of Awe
Return again, return again, return to the land of your soul,
Return to who you are, return to what you are, return to where you are
Born and reborn again.
Edward Weston - Charis, 1942
From "Magdalene Afterwards" - Marie Howe
Often I’m lonely.
Sometimes a joy pours through me so immense.
I want to see through the red bricks of the building across the street,
into the something else that almost gleams though the day.
- Marie Howe
Patty Nash - from "Lübeck"
from Lübeck
The wheel of history is being turned
Terns skim the wetlands which are evaded by the tiller
The tiller is the lever which turns the wheel
The wheel levers the tiller and is attached to the rudder
The rudder maneuvers the ship like a shark fin
Fine establishment you’ve got here
Her? Oh, she’s my sister
- Patty Nash