( me / via )

"I think coming back there, and seeing this place now overgrown, feels so important, especially in times when everything feels so replaceable and disposable. Even observing this place vanishing lifts my heart up in a strange way. Like I know this house stood there for 150 years and will collapse sometime soon, and I’m grateful it will return to nature."

"Some decades earlier, François-René de Chateaubriand had expressed his own generation’s malaise, warning of the ‘unsettled state of the passions’, the ‘tedium of the heart’ and the ‘secret inquietude’ of young people whose environment offered no outlet for their intense feelings. ‘With a full heart,’ he sighed, ‘we dwell in an empty world.’ " —Emily Herring via

"The worlds of the outer solar system – from its giants like Pluto and Eris, to its minnows like 2002 XV93 – are far more interesting than they at first appear. They are dynamic worlds, subject to forces and processes so alien and so familiar to us on Earth. They are worthy of attention – and in the case of 2002 XV93, a proper name as well.."

      "yahoodini"

bent heads scrolling · as the scrambled light
   finds this windswept bridge
peripheral stulm laughter
lattices the business

tapeshadow · shuddery ribs
   faded-name van
double arrow abscess
& airt taken starewise

so early trek · true north gnat-skewed
   circular church twice
speedrun through the thrum dark
thrash amidst ash-missives

storylost stagger · destiny erstwhile
   all the glittering shards

Triolet.