Friday, March 20, 2026

( via / me )

A poem about A23a.

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Hélder Câmara via @thecolfax.bsky.social

Revisiting Tennyson as he looks out at the sea.

      Mallarmé: Ses purs ongles très haut dédiant leur onyx

Her chaste nails so highly dedicating their onyx,
   Anguish, this midnight torchbearer, saves
   many an evening's reverie burned with the phoenix
   otherwise bound for no crematory vase.
On the sideboards, in the empty parlor: ptyxless,
   gewgaw-banned resounding banality
   for the Boss is gone to dip tears from the Styx,
   only that--and Nothing will thus be honored...
Near the northerly vacant casement, gilt
   convulses as per perhaps the setting
   from unicorns bucking fire against an elf;
   she, late nude of the mirror, however,
   into the vacuum by those edges held
   abides among twinklings presently the Seven.

A YouTube channel called Universal Ambients. They make long ambient tracks inspired by historical art that depicts a particular place in a particular year..

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