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The puddle in the beginning of all things
In the beginning of all things, there is a puddle.
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The Salt-Catchers of Missolonghi
[...] Dust of water, the tongue receives through you a kiss from the marine night. Taste melds your oceanity into each rich morsel. And thus the least…
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Rumpelstiltskin Sings
[Long Read]
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Hibernation
I lead you out on a February evening (The frogs are still exhaling) A bed of self-seeded aconites adore you Earth's shadow cannot shroud them Remember…
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The Song of the Purloined Prince
(‘Le Roi Grenouille’, Catherine Duchêne, 2019)
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The New Dance
The Wedding at Cana, Paolo Veronese, 1563, (Louvre, Paris)The cups had run dry Dry as a bone, she said, Dry as torn from trembling flesh. What a…
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Photosynthesising
Thinking with Han Kang's The Vegetarian (2007)
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Enclosure
From the new road that overlays the old with familiar puddles of strange colours She watches me. As wind at midnight She breaks Her vigil only when Her…
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Surplus Kermes
Autumn Leaves, Sir John Everett Millais, 1856
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