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Like snow, falling 31 Jul 2011 | 04:24 pm
"poetry lights up life from time to time like snow, falling, and you have achieved a great deal already if you have kept eyes to see it." - Philippe Jaccottet, from Seedtime (translated from the Fre...
In Short 7 Jul 2011 | 03:57 am
"It seems to me that when you write a short story, you have to cut off both the beginning and the end. We writers do most of our lying in those spaces. You must write shorter, to make it as short as p...
Shades of Eternal Night 7 Jul 2011 | 12:19 am
R.I.P. Cy Twombly [Image taken from here]
All in the mind 13 Jun 2011 | 03:15 am
Reading Marcia Angell's piece in the latest NYRB on the treatment of mental illness (an interesting read btw), I found myself wondering if it really makes sense to speak of placebo effects in the cont...
Melt 5 Jun 2011 | 06:03 pm
All winter the snow made the roads impassable I wrote page after page thinking of you. Now the water flows free down the mountain And I must decide if these words are worth sending. - Hu Ming-Xiang
The Sound of the Mountain 2 Jun 2011 | 03:52 pm
You say you don't understand Why I listen to the mountains. If I could find a true stranger I could explain myself. - Hu Ming-Xiang
The Cat and The Butterflies 1 Jun 2011 | 04:17 pm
I sit in the yard and watch My cat chasing butterflies. I admire his technique. I hope they get away. - Hu Ming-Xiang
The Open Road 1 Jun 2011 | 04:11 pm
No more shall I be tempted By the welcoming road. He who has no door Cannot leave it open. - Hu Ming-Xiang
The Friendship of Strangers 30 May 2011 | 11:22 am
Brief as a storm is the friendship of strangers Just two days since we first met Yet the sound of laughter flooding my house Makes me forget the rain outside. - Hu Ming-Xiang
Home is where the hatred is 29 May 2011 | 05:06 pm
privacy of self- righteousness the need to be/long these are the songs you were born to battle lines drawn in the powdered cocaine white as the snow on TV a frenzy contained disconnection you cl...