( via / screenshot from google street view )

"For us, the contemporary poetry that matters tries make sense of the history of the recent past, a past that’s been propagandized, memory-holed, and co-opted to the point it can be difficult to remember, much less reconstruct a historical narrative about these times and their psychic darkness." (via)

   "this first fog, enough
to paint grass turquoise-grey, plus
   a few extra wisps"

—Jenkins Rising via

The kind of debate that makes me want to turn off my laptop & go outside, where the predators can be recognized coming at me.

Let’s keep snobbery in jazz where it belongs.

"The darkness in a Caravaggio is not, therefore, theatrical; it is residential. It: 'smells of candles, over-ripe melons, damp washing waiting to be hung out the next day: it is the darkness of stairwells, gambling corners, cheap lodgings, sudden encounters'."