"Consider what you will find in the black garden"
Merwin, Powell, Baker, Dickinson, Tazhi
W.S. Merwin:
D.A. Powell:
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David Baker:
Emily Dickinson:
A faded Boy - in / sallow Clothes / Who drove a lonesome / Cow / To pastures of Oblivion - / A statesman’s Embryo - // The Boys that whistled / are extinct - / The Cows that fed / and thanked // Remanded / to a Ballad’s / Barn / Or Clover’s / Retrospect -
Aigerim Tazhi (tr. from Russian by J. Kates):
“Melancholia” ending, dir. by Lars Von Trier, 2011:
“Dinosaurs” ending, July 20, 1994:
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The David Baker piece brings to mind the men of many decades that who gather outside our neighborhood doughnut shop. Every single morning, without fail and with diligence, they solve the world's problems. Until they don't.