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still life: coffee, gachet.
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a tempest of grasses washed them ashore.
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except the stories that we make unfolding:

as if our sole real power
were the power
of children holding
this flower that is a weed that is a flower.

—peter campion, from dandelions

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these four they banded together against the wind.
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we bow to you small offerings of the sky.
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the air was thus a huge announcement.

today it’s completely
transparent, a vase. inside it
flowers flower. thus
a little death scent.

—matthew zapruder, from erstwhile harbinger auspices

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bonnie & clyde.
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wary of its own blossoms.
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wildwood.
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love is not enough.

we die and are put into the earth forever. / we should insist while there is still time. we must / eat through the wildness of her sweet body already / in our bed to reach the body within the body.

—jack gilbert, from “tear it down”

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a toll good sir, and we shall let you pass.
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la sagrada familia.
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when chagall paints

you do not know if he is asleep or awake. somewhere or other inside his head there must be an angel. (said picasso).

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man of style: marc chagall.