Archive for November, 2018

Art Pepper Quartet 1981 – Body and Soul – YouTube

 

On the path to improvement, follow the jester, not the sage | Aeon Classics

Ocean. From Album of 18 Daoist Paintings by Zhang Lu (1464-1538).

 

The philosophy that improves you by mocking your beliefs: Alan Jay Levinovitz introduces the Zhuang Zi.

Source: On the path to improvement, follow the jester, not the sage | Aeon Classics

“Ordinary Psalm In The Anthropocene” by Julia Levine by The Southern Review/LSUP | Free Listening on SoundCloud

 

with thanks to dmf

antantantantant | contemporary haiku since 1994

labyrinthine

folds

of air

 

(anatomy of sky)

 

– Thomas Wilock

Source: antantantantant | contemporary haiku since 1994

Thomas Wiloch Haiku 1994 | antantantantant

cell’s dark

climax

community

 

(early oracles)

 

Source: Thomas Wiloch Haiku 1994 | antantantantant

Naples and Hartford in Season: Aetna Insurance Company

Source: Naples and Hartford in Season: Aetna Insurance Company

Why Parmesan Cheese Is So Expensive – YouTube

Chiflidos en la neblina [Whistles in the Mist]- YouTube

3 Keys to Having Sex With the Non-Binary Person, Even When That Person is You

You don’t need to sacrifice your nonbinary identity to be sexual, because you do not need to perform gender during sex. There doesn’t have to be a male or female, dominant or submissive.

Source: 3 Keys to Having Sex With the Non-Binary Person, Even When That Person is You

otata 36 (December 2018)

Giuliana Ravaglia

aironi bianchi:
profuma il cielo di crisantemi

white herons:
the sky smells of mums

 

Sheila Windsor

I want to
Kiss your light

Joseph Aversano

Behold

the cornea’s
curve of
this world

 

Ingrid Bruck

first baby teeth
hesitant green
under snow

 

Eufemia Griffo

luna errante
ancora l’eco
di una canzone d’amore

wandering moon
still the echo
of a love song

luna d’inverno
la forma argentata
di un fiocco di neve

winter moon
the silvered shape
of a snowflake

 

Anna Maris

OPEN QUARRY

open quarry the wound

earth laid bare barren

granite

so hard
under my skin

this endless pain

in what can no longer be mended

afternoon sunset
over the broken tarmac
small steps forward

 

Stefano d’Andrea

villaggio antico. . .
nei caruggi deserti
l’ombra del vento

ancient village. . .
through the deserted caruggi
the shadow of the wind

[caruggi: narrow alleys, typical of Ligurian small towns]

 

Robert Christian

13.11.18
Mid—November poem

The last six weeks of
the year taken up
from the start of
December (two weeks

away) by Christmas
excitement so as
the Year dies
the pace quickens

and we may no more
still to a quiet frost
or wonder at the
possibility of snow

becoming snow itself
than we may know
the thrill of summer
or time lost forever

The rejuvenation
is love’s whatever
we think or do
in silent space like the stars

appearing now and
then to be there
for us as needed
as we would be and are

 

Margarita Petriccione

ancora e ancora
cadono bisbigliando
foglie di quercia

again and again
they fall in a whisper oak leaves

 

bere acqua di sorgente
con tutta la faccia
tempo di pensionamento

drinking spring water
with your whole face —
retirement

 

Peter Newton

 

loose thoughts
gone in a gust
year’s end

 

Source: December, 2018 – Otata