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reading
Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together – Elizabeth Weinberg
Set Fear on Fire – lastesis
Basho: the Complete Haiku – Jane Reichold, translator
Duchamp is my Lawyer – Kenneth Goldsmith
The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
A Frog in the Fall (and later on) – Linnea Sterte
Little Stranger – Edie Fake
Her Book and The Century – Éireann Lorsung
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugivity – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie – Nejib
Red Flowers – Yoshiharu Tsuge
No. 5 – Taiyo Matsumoto
The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination – Robert Place
Whereas – Layli Long Soldier
Wide Angle Photography – Chris Marquardt
On Street Photography and the Poetic Image – Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
Slide Show and Here and There – Helen Levitt
City Spaces and At City’s Edge – Bob Thall
Sky above, great wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen master Ryokan – Kazuaki Tanahashi
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
Juchitán – Graciela Iturbide
On Composition and Improvisation – Larry Fink
Stages for Being – Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Diane Arbus: In the Beginning – Jeff L. Rosenheim

watching
The Daring Gang of Nineteen from Verdun City – Tu Kuang Chi
Iron Mistress – Tsun-chou Sung
The Heroic Trio – Johnny To
Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine – Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach
Spoor – Agnieska Holland and Kasia Adamik
Isle of Dogs – Wes Anderson
Helmut Newton: the Bad and the Beautiful – Gero von Boehm
In the Mirror of Maya Deren – Martina Kudlacek
The South Bank Show: Kathy Acker
Dr. Orloff’s Monster – Jesus Franco
Magnificent Warriors – David Chung
Beuys – Andres Veiel
Lifetime Guarantee: Phrancs Adventures in Plastic – Lisa Udelson
Chavela – Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi
No Ordinary Man – Aisling Chin-yee and Chase Joynt
Inaate/se/ – Adam Khalil and Zach Khalil
Nationtime – Gary William Greaves
Seven Women of Different Ages – Krzysztof Kieslowski
Those at a Distance Resemble each other – Jessica Sarah Rinland
A Touch of Zen – King Hu
Kino 84: Jim Jarmusch – Martina Muller
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Dr. Who
What We Do in the Shadows (series)

listening

Crisis – Ornette Coleman
Deaf Dumb Blind Summun Bukmun Umyun – Pharaoh Sanders
Music and Dance – Derek Bailey
For You and I – Loraine James
Music and Poetry of the Kesh – Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton
Deep Listening – Pauline Oliveros
Chelsea Girl – Nico
Black Woman – Sonny Sharrock
Hounds of Love – Kate Bush
The Punchline – Minutemen
For Your Pleasure – Roxy Music
Analog Bubblebath 4 – AFX
Confield – Autechre
Overload – Georgia Anne Muldrow
Fanfare for the Warriors – Art Ensemble of Chicago
Chryptus – Eliane Radigue
total symptoms. – Casual Leg
Back Home – Big Joanie
The Pigeon is the Most Popular Bird – Six Finger Satellite

october 2022

October 21, 2022

This body

Having moved beyond desirability
that brief window
closed

Desire remains

but internal
a concept
abstraction
not to be expressed

October 24, 2022

To disconnect from this body
to unidentify with it

To not feel sadness when seeing it

To accept this body as it is
to experience it without the
judgment of capital

august 2022

August 6, 2022

Blood furtive
A ruptured hemorrhoid

I want this out of my body

You are tar
To be emptied

August 110, 2022

Sensitive gums
A fear of disease
rotting
grafted
teeth falling out.

August 13, 2022

The crickets quiet
and low

grateful for all
insects that sing

leaves sing in
their friction
with wind

the breeze
open windows
voices of neighbors

the trees are full
with leaves
and wind
sing

we are trees
we are trees

existing
existing

August 15, 2022

Sing to the earth
Lay peace upon the ghost

Grow grass tall for the crickets
The singing insects at night

August 21, 2022

In evening
we family for ice cream
Coffee, caramel
strawberry cheesecake,
grapefruit

Sun setting
Trees and crickets

The man asks if he is excited
for school to start tomorrow

Kind of

Return home walking
in the cool of this evening

August 31, 2022

Venus in the sky tonight
Remember –

Walking home after school
with my son

Looking at the stars
Mars
Venus

The chill of late autumn

July 2022

July 13, 2022

In the sand and pines
of the Delaware shore
Where cicadas sing
a different song

July 18, 2022

(Pennsylvania Turnpike)

Beautiful and hateful

A wall of tree and cloud

garfield park

June 27, 2022

An afternoon storm
thunder and wind pass
smoke in the air
a remnant of rain
in drips

Breeze against both face
and bare arms

A calm of trees and grass
bushes and flowers
birds
all tranquility
surrounded by city
it is heard
but not seen

joyfully alone

a word for

February 28, 2022.

The word for reading a new book by an author new to you and discovering that the words don’t resonate, don’t land at all. Instead they simply roll by, flitting in and out without leaving an imprint in your brain. Repeatedly re-reading the same page or pages, over and over, without realizing you’ve already read and re-read them.

reading watching listening

readingwatchinglistening

reading

Dune The Graphic Novel Book 2 – Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert (Adapted by), Kevin J. Anderson (Adapted by), Raúl Allén (Illustrator), Patricia Martín (Illustrator
The Next Apocalypse – Chris Begley
The Winged Histories and The White Mosque – Sofia Samatar
Who Will Make the Pancakes – Megan Kelso
Glitch Feminism – Legacy Russell
Shuna’s Journey – Hayao Miyazaki
Wanderer 8 – Alyssa Giannini
No Death, No Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh
Time Zone J – Julie Doucet
King Cat 82 – John Porcellino
Dune – Frank Herbert
The Dark Between the Trees – Fiona Barnett
Deep Wheel Orcadia – Harry Josephine Giles
Nothing Special: Living Zen – Charlotte Joko Beck
Shubeik Lubeik – Deena Mohamed
Behind the Zines 15 – Billy McCall, editor
The Future is Female – Lisa Yaszek, editor
Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie – Leah Kardos
Indigenous Continent – Pekka Hämäläinen
Trots and Bonnie – Shary Flenniken

watching

The Sandman (show)
Sebastian – Derek Jarman
Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan – Nobuo Nakagawa
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – Eric Appel
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ryan Coogler
Only Murders in the Building
Australian Open 2023
The Tale of Zatoichi – Kenji Misumi
Reservation Dogs
Harley Quinn (show)
Party Girl – Daisy von Scherler Mayer
The Long Goodbye, 3 Women, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller – Robert Altman
Four Journeys into Mystic Time; Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World and Bullfight – Shirley Clarke
Legend of the Mountain, Raining in the Mountain, and Dragon Inn – King Hu
On-gaku: Our Sound – Kenji Iwaisawa
Solaris – Andrei Tarkovsky
Home – Ursula Meier
All the Beauty and Bloodshed – Laura Poitras
All I Desire – Douglas Sirk
Drag Race Season 15
Our Flag Means Death

listening

Clear Water: No Front/No Back – Ada Rave
Zonez V1 and V2 – Suzi Analogue
Youl and YSMYSMYSM – Loula Yorke
Fobia – Violeta Garcia
Amanace Infierno – Omar Grandoso
but is it solopsism – Tomoroh Hidari
Flagranti – Deena Abdelwahed
Playing the Body – Minim
Suicide Invoice and Audit In Progress – Hot Snakes
Aquatic and Other Worlds – Oksana Linde
Wash & Set and Acrylic – Leikeli47
Second Edition – Public Image Ltd
Cantus, descant – Sarah Davachi
Mom’s – Carl Stone
Call the Doctor, Dig Me Out and The Hot Rock – Sleater Kinney
Paris Session – Art Ensemble of Chicago
Femina Furenz – Djunah
Morning Due – Nappy Nina

summer 2021

July 15, 2021

Of a sudden – a downpour afternoon

A white heron stands fishing near the shore
the geese in the pond across the green swim
and shake the rain from their feathers
five small white birds fly above the heron’s pond
occasionally diving in to catch aquatic creatures

A roll of thunder
and the geese honk and hop out of their pond to sit on the green grass
sheets give way to drops
the sizzle hiss becomes staccato beats

The veil lifts incrementally and distant trees reemerge
in the grass a frog sings low

I sit on the porch and read about a young trans  girl
fighting to exist in North Carolina

July 18, 2021

A scalded tongue
fields and wind break trees
A landscape of repetition
you reveal yourself in layers

July 20, 2021

Sitting in the silence of night
a yellow moon
airplanes, cars,
the cat’s water fountain in the kitchen

Straining my ears for crickets,
other insects of the summer night

but only silence

It could be winter
but for the open window

August 7, 2021

Reading a book in the morning
Observing the rotation of the earth
as sunlight spreading
across the page

August 24, 2021

1.

Warmth. Mellow depth appreciation. Smoothness of voice.
Third shift small town rave-up.
Cleaning an apartment bathroom, sun pouring through window.
Mexico is imminent.

Jazz chords and beats. Internal summer dance parties.
Recycled from an early millennium crushed out mix-tape.

2.

Ascending drama. A cavern. Night.
Golden slink opulence. A queen rather than lizard king.
Head nods. The nineties dream spanning decades.
Ecstatic pop. A smear of sound.

Canopied optimism.
New and old anthems.

September 19, 2021

Venus
the moon
behind clouds
dark trees silhouette
against night sky