Basking in the Afterglobe

Our Wanderings

Revision in My Wife’s Powder Room

by Lauren Berry
- It has been said that James Audubon once slaughtered a mangrove of birds in order to find the right specimen for a painting.

I’ll need more salt than this. A loose feather
sticks pink to the edge of the bathtub 
and slides down to my fist. Her mouth 
music boxes shut: its wish against human knowledge. 
Inside her stomach—stones and sand and concept. 
I can’t ask questions in that language. What if 
my strings of English reveal the man I want to be? 
My tongue waters at every lagoon, every disjointed
flamingo: the mistakes of God. There are 
thousands of them and I will need thousands of them.
When the bird steps forward, her legs bow back, 
behind her, toward the man she doesn’t know 
will fit her to this canvas. Bend her to the 
face of God. Grace I’ll need more strength than this. 

“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
—   Maxim Gorky (via quotesandnonsense)

“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”
—   Isabel Allende (via quotesandnonsense)
theparisreview: “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” —W. B. Yeats Pictured: Thoor Ballylee, Co. Galway. Once owned by W.B. Yeats once.

theparisreview:

“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” —W. B. Yeats

Pictured: Thoor Ballylee, Co. Galway. Once owned by W.B. Yeats once.

poetrysince1912:

—Donald Hall, Poetry, February 1995

At Page-Turner, a history of Donald Hall’s beards (and loves).

theparisreview: “Grammar cops are rarely good writers. Imagination always disobeys.” Sherman Alexie starts a Tweet storm. For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

theparisreview:

“Grammar cops are rarely good writers. Imagination always disobeys.” Sherman Alexie starts a Tweet storm.

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

banksystreetart: Thug for life

banksystreetart:

Thug for life

“People think of education as something they can finish.”
—   Isaac Asimov (via invaderxan)

(Source: youtu.be, via interstellarknowledge)

spectacularlyignorant:

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev

(via interstellarknowledge)

theparisreview:

Artist Ekaterina Panikanova paints on old books. As you can see, the results are extraordinary.