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1661 Punica in heroic couplets. (via)

" 'Work on good prose has three steps,' writes Walter Benjamin, 'a musical one when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.' He omits a crucial step: a cinematic one when it is edited." —Lucy Sante via

Odd Man Out.

six-cylinder days
mild consent this vintage
      smashed nothing
   in its inning
within my gaze's · galloping ambit
sky of burning scorn
scribble with ache driblets
      list projects

   posey
rarefied waltz
   jolt pizzazz
riddle's jagged midpoint
that great broken stretch
in the cicadas' song

Aurora Australis from the International Space Station.