Desiring lasts a long time, demands and request go on to infinity; fulfillment is short and is meted out sparingly. But even the final satisfaction itself is only apparent; the wish fulfilled at once makes way for a new one. - Feel Free, Zadie Smith Virginia Beach, July 2019
The Gulf Stream
"I learned living requires a kind of discipline; / A reverence for the law of gravity. // But I have wanted, / As I want when I look at the painting, / To unhouse my body." - Terrance Hayes I don't remember for which class I purchased Hayes' Hip Logic. But sometime between 2001 and … Continue reading The Gulf Stream
Cosmology of Monsters
"...life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and family, and forgiveness." A quote from my favorite book of the year, A Cosmology of Monsters.
The Jam 