Happy summer solstice :) I always forget how much I enjoy the stickiness.


This spring, I hiked up a mountain with no peak. There were trees growing in granite, instead of soil, and bouquets of flowers kept showing up at my feet. On the way back, I was granted a wish :-)


The next day, I celebrated a year of living in Korea by returning to more familiar mountains. A big rainstorm washed everything out, and everyone was happy. I came back to the city happy, too.


I don’t know what else to say - how else to commemorate my time here - because I keep falling behind on keeping up. I have a small collection of poems and a small collection of songs.


I hope to look back at this a year later with the same fondness I feel right now <3


HOW EARNEST CAN THIS DAY GET?
Trying to be clever
and wearing a shoe
atop my head

Tilt diffraction
Dancing
Quick clown

Hat

Hand-holding
pulling into the lean-back
all directions
yeah warm knot

I want to hear from as many people as possible
come and get up close
and speak honestly into my open shell ears
I’d like to hear the shape of your teeth
and the architecture of your lungs

building by building
skyscrapers
crumbling brick

blowing
this city
off kilter


March
I am thinking
of the way you run

I am doing a good job
at it

You
Circle stream
in the afternoon

A swarm of flies
turns everything black

Single-minded
stars
tell me
I’ve got it all wrong


forty degree arc
Who is the man
So good at collecting
Cigarette boxes
cut-and-laminated
for admiring tomorrow
Shelves of liquor left arranged, untouched
Baseball caps

Did he consider what he’d leave behind
once he died
Is he supposed to clean up after himself
What is his wife supposed to do with the piles
but sit and sleep amongst them
What is prolonged pilfering

He used to take many gentle photos of her
downturned smile
held up by the leaning pines

customary kneeling
teaches you how to place
your only forehead
onto the cold ground

it’s hard to tell what’ll stick around
through the business
and the wars
but keep your eyes on the altar food
brushed-on egg batter
monochromatic feast
yellowed shrine
left sogging
for unappreciative ghosts


spr?ng
Relive, Redie - Big Thief
Day to Day - Chelsea Days
식어 버린 차 - 김창완
Meaning Business - Wendy Eisenberg
i ate myself - bbpue
Forced Perspective - Samba Jean-Baptiste
Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth - Operating Theatre
Healing - feeble little horse
neo roneo - rusowsky ft. LATIN MAFIA
brujita - rusowsky
Also With Each Other - Requisit
Las palabras sin tejado - Apeiron
Miffed It - Way Dynamic
Creator, Destroyer/If It's Alive, It Will - Angel Olsen
Melody - CIFIKA
길 나서기 전 부르는 노래
grapefruit technique - drug bug
最初やるには To Do First - Tenniscoats

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