January 2012
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And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered...
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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I accidentally locked myself out tonight in a snow squall. There was the moon all foggy-luminous, trees creaking like old rocking chairs, and those lovely big cotton-puff snowflakes. One really shouldn’t go wandering in the woods at night, but then there was a fox, and it stopped suddenly in its tracks. We stared at each other for a second, caught, and then he slipped into the trees. How...
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December 2011
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Oh help. Where do these phantom sadnesses come from? Now I’m drunk in bed and all alone and lost. And what words could possibly suffice until the rain of sadness has passed?
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Somewhere the flower of farewell is blooming.
Endlessly it yields its pollen,...
– Rainer Maria Rilke from A Year With Rilke, Dec 31
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2011
Winter of deer and foxes, fog and snow, frozen-in-time hours by the window to the woods. The Secret History, new work, New York.
Spring of loss. First blossoms and a bitter flight across the Pacific. Lonely, nervous weeks in Australia. Rainbows, crystals, fish&chips, and books in bed.
Summer of storms, of the Virginian heat, of wind whipping through hair. Lightning, thunder, crash-pangs of...
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For the sake of one line of poetry, one must see many cities, people, and...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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Cleaning out old things and making space for the new, I was caught off-guard by the heartache of it. Grieving over lost times, people, dreams. All gone forever. Forever.
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One thing I like about Christmas Eve is that everybody’s got a little bit of glitter on their face.
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