First Fire
Stripped in a flamedance, the bluff backing our houses
quivered in wet-black skin. A shawl of haze tugged tight
around the starkness. We could have choked on August.
Smoke thick in our throats, nearly naked as the earth,
we played bare feet over the heat caught in asphalt.
Could we, green girls, have prepared for this? Yesterday,
we played in sand-carpeted caves. The store we built
sold broken bits of ice plant, empty snail shells, leaves.
Our school’s walls were open sky. We reeled in wonder
from the hills, oblivious to the beckoning
crescendo and to our parent’s hushed communion.
When our bluff swayed into the undulation, we ran
into the still streets of our suburb, feet burning
against a fury that we did not know was change.
CAMILLE T. DUNGY
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Dirk McDermott
Fellow Scout who could climb and touch
the gold ball at the top of the flagpole,
and do math three grades ahead
under his crewcut. I need a calculator
to figure how long since I spoke his name.
How long since I offered my own blue
neckerchief to wipe his always runny nose.
But last night in smoke, steam, and rain
beside a wrecked train I told him how happy
I felt in the igloo we’d built, how handsome
a cub he’d been crawling on all fours
up the twilit tunnel to me. In a hoarse
whisper and never looking at his face.
Patrick Donnelly
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Flight Facilities - Clair De Lune
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Heli Salonen (Finnish artist, b. 1949), The Path to the Sea, 1998
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Nocturnal Ice Fishing Trip - Janne Erkkilä , 2015
Finnish, b. 1986 -
Acrylic on canvas , 110 x 70 cm.
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Having a Fight With You
is like being burned up
in a twelfth-floor elevator.
Or drowned in a flipped SUV.
It’s like waking with scalpels
arrayed on my chest.
Like being banished to 1983.
Having a fight with you
is never, ever less horrid: that whisper
that says you never loved me—
my heart a stalled engine
out the little square window.
Your eyes a white-capped black sea.
-Patrick Phillips
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Robert Irwin, Installation, Chinati Foundation
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Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the Brilliance of Life
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After Years
Today, from a distance, I saw you
walking away, and without a sound
the glittering face of a glacier
slid into the sea. An ancient oak
fell in the Cumberlands, holding only
a handful of leaves, and an old woman
scattering corn to her chickens looked up
for an instant. At the other side
of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times
the size of our own sun exploded
and vanished, leaving a small green spot
on the astronomer's retina
as he stood on the great open dome
of my heart with no one to tell.
—Ted Kooser
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teamLab, The Infinite Crystal Universe, 2015-18
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dont be stupid
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From the Walker Collection:
Robert Irwin
untitled
1971
Synthetic fabric, wood, fluorescent lights, floodlights
Approximately 96 x 564 inches
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