I know what winter is, today
at least, out here
walking the ridge of quiet trees,
heavyhearted and close to
mistaking for grief this snow
on my eyelid. But enough—
I say the word aloud, as if it
were a prayer, and it floats off.
And if words are incense,
lasting only as long as
I believe in the next breath,
let me first take this breath—
that once was mist in a field,
vapor rising, whirled
by sun toward this snowfall
and magical air. Let me want
what I have, let me take
what is given to conjure with.
And when there is silence,
let me let silence be—as Keats
may have, once in Rome,
where he saw the ruined Colosseum
just as it was, transfigured,
made a trellis redly laden
with pomegranate trees at root
in the chinks of tumbled stone.
Perhaps he plucked one fruit and ate
the tart seeds out, black
and sweet enough, and spoke of it
to no one—why should he? the moment
full of its own juice, sweet
beyond tally or trace,
the martyrs and lions and spoiled
ladies long gone, the stones
simply there for him to harvest—
thrust and gnarl, slim trunk, branch
and fruit suspended in a soft wind
that may have, for all I know,
began when a star
collapsed, somewhere beyond Arcturus.
Resolutions by Margaret Gibson
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21 ottobre … ricordiamo …
21 ottobre … ricordiamo …
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2022: Silvana Suárez, Silvana Rosa Suárez Clarence, modella argentina vincitrice del concorso di bellezza Miss Mondo 1978. Dopo aver invano tentato la carriera di cantante (all’età di diciassette anni era stata anche direttrice di un coro locale), divenne una delle prime Miss Mondo a posare nuda per Playboy, facendosi fotografare senza veli nel 1985. Nel 1988 sposò l’uomo d’affari Julio Ramos,…
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Margaret Gibson (actress)
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older oil pastel & crayon anxiety stuff on newsprint. penny-a-sheet my beloved.
quotes are from William Gibson's 'A Season in Heaven: Being the Log of an Expedition After That Legendary Beast, Cosmic Consciousness' (1974) & Margaret Atwood's 'Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein," (2012) respectively.
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No one will ever understand the unbreakable bond between a schlagerbög and his mediocre pop song about romance that placed sixth in the Swedish Eurovision national qualification heats five to twelve years ago.
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One of the rare appearances of German chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) in a comic, joined by Hans-Jochen Vogel (SPD) and others - the late Jürgen Möllemann (FDP) is also featured on the cover, I think. Going by the hilarious subtitle of “The Night Germany Had Two Chancellors” - as if the title Axel F, the witcher of Bonn, wasn’t ridiculous enough - this Doppelganger tale was written by Peter Menningen and drawn by Fulgenci Cabrerizo, with Uğurcan Yüce providing the cover art.
There a some back up stories appearing in this issue written by the likes of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Neil Gaiman, taken from Fleetway’s 2000 AD.
Amusingly, the Alan Moore-penned story, drawn by Ian Gibson, comes up with UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher as part of the role call; the transnational “geistig-moralische Wende” in full effect, if you so will.
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In fields of bush clover and hay-scent grass
the autumn moon takes refuge
The cricket's song is gold
Zeshin's loneliness taught him this
Who is coming?
What will come to pass, and pass?
Neither bruise nor sweetness nor cool air
not-knowing
knows the way
And the moon?
Who among us does not wander, and flare
and bow to the ground?
Who does not savor, and stand open
if only in secret
taking heart in the ripening of the moon?
from Autumn Grasses by Margaret Gibson
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Finished inking my cocktail party of great sci-fi authors
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Sark, Alias 5x08: “Anything in life worth doing has an element of risk. It’s what makes life interesting.” Victor, OUAT 1x06: “By never knowing what’s expected – keeps life interesting.”
ok seriously David? 6yrs apart in these shows and nearly the same line, including buying drinks and spending a night together (though sark/rachel’s relationship went further than whale/snow). But I LOOOVE the parallels since both were 2 of my favorite scenes! hehehe
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this is so incredibly cute what the hell
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heres how i personally can win
the coffin path, katherine clements / aew full gear '23, scott lesh / bed of dolls by sugarcoma / in the kliq podcast / dynamite, 2. 07. 24. / to the desert, benjamin alire sáenz / crush, richard siken / aew full gear '23 / speeches for dr frankenstein, margaret atwood / aew revolution '24, jj williams / don't let them see me like this, jasmine gibson / aew full gear '23, scott lesh / frankenstein, mary shelley / aew revolution '24 / waco, texas by ethel cain
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Hey, do you have any good books for understanding and disarticulating authoritarianism? I've really benefited from a lot of your book recs, thank you
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I cut my eye teeth on domestic violence literature, then by the time I got to Judith Herman explaining that the tactics of abusive families and abusive governments are the same, I had enough base knowledge on the internal systems of abusive families to muddle my way forward from there. I’ll try to structure the list so it follows that same basic trend.
adult children of emotionally immature parents by lindsay c gibson
controlling people by patricia evans
trauma and recovery: the aftermath of violence from domestic abuse to political terror by judith herman
if this is a man by primo levi
by hands now known: jim crow’s legal executioners by margaret a. burnham
the man they wanted me to be: toxic masculinity and a crisis of our own making by jared yates sexton
jesus and john wayne: how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation, by kristin kobes du mez
caste: on the origins of our discontents, by isabel wilkerson
white rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide by carol anderson
captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex by eric a. stanley
the origins of totalitarianism by hannah arendt
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