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Autumn Hymn.

   only on ruins,
my future meditations;
   though we may rebuild

as after each eruption
this was the loss that was home

"Better to grapple with the murkiness of this moment..."

But does not poetry begin precisely at the place that has no remedy?

Instrument.

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Frogs Together Strong (watercolor).

"To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order." —@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

"After many of his fellow writers at 'Cahiers du cinéma' made their first movies, film critic Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) feels the time is right to make his own mark on cinema."

   attenuated
merely: this cloud of mischance
   men know as covid

so memory-holed, masks seen
precipitate vast unease

I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said.