4/24/11

Pulaski Skyway World


There's commute to it. The Cashmere Pulaski Skyway.

Nada observation

Geneva is like a low-pressure water fountain.



4/9/11

Angle of Yaw - Ben Lerner

HE HAD ENOUGH RESPECT FOR PAINTING to quit. Enough respect for quitting to paint.
Enough respect for the figure to abstract. For abstraction to hint at the breast. For the breast to
ask the model to leave. But I live here, says the model. And I respect that, says the painter. But
I have enough respect for respect to insist. For insistence to turn the other cheek. For the other
cheek to turn the other cheek. Hence I appear to be shaking my head No.

Anecdote of the Jar - Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion every where.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.