photo of woman on a bed clutching a pillow

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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link to site via wood s lot

Edward Teller’s Leg

...our breathing fell away down
the mountain. We leaned back,

the tinkling sky
chandeliered with neurons. All the night before...

Ron Smith/Poetry Daily

Moss Shows

their inner qibla reconfigured:

By sequentially altering the temperature of the water in which salmon fry are hatched and raised, researchers can lay a distinctive “batch label” into the chemical layers of the otolith—a kind of barcode, inscribed in stone, and indelibly preserved within the maturing adult fish...

Cabinet
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via 3QD

To the Family of the Man We Ate 130 Years Ago

...with its many fluids and folds, his own
body, a chicken's wing, even
patted a dog's back with it and then
he raised it to our chieftain's
head to remove a wooden half
a fishbone—comb, he called it,
after he had shown him one gliding
through his own hair—well...

Sharon Dolin/Verse Daily

Blind boy Fuller, Gary Davis, Sonny Terry
much more, @Big Road Blues

Jakob Dylan Seeing Things
esp. Something Good This Way Comes

The Blackmailer's Wife Reads History and Considers the Nature of Guilt

...people claimed they saw
Napoleon's face in the moon. Others caught the rigging
of his facial bones, the holes of his eyes, ghosted

on the flattened white of an egg. Myself, I've a fear of touching
a white balloon and finding my husband's head inside...

Judy Brown/Verse Daily

A Tribute To Old Time Country Music

mp3's of obscure genuine real country performers

treasurable Joni Mitchell 1972 in Paris free:

This Flight Tonight
Electricity
Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
Big Yellow Taxi
Cactus Tree
See You Sometime
For Free
Banquet
All I Want
A Case Of You

Carey
A Lesson In Survival
Woodstock
Blue
You Turn Me On I’m A Radio
For The Roses
Both Sides Now
Rainy Night House
The Circle Game

via rw

Two things, a movie PU-239, also called The Half Life of Timofey Berezin, and a book, Shaun Tan's The Arrival, a graphic novel.
The protagonist in both is virtually the same guy, though they're presented with diametrically opposite outcomes to their lives, one sad and final, the other hopeful and opening out to the future.
But Paddy Considine's Timofey and Tan's nameless father have wonderfully symmetrical shapes, the vibe of each of them as though it was the life of one man told in two alternate stories.
Not to mention Nikolaj Lie Kaas as a Mafiya big shot in the movie, and a fantastically true architecture in Tan's book that captures the alien hit of emigration with gorgeous sepia precision.

RRC is the only publication recommended by Rage Against the Machine

The Museum of Stones

...stone from the silvery grass near the scaffold,

stone from the tunnel lined with bones...

Carolyn Forché
New Yorker

His parents didn't know what to do:

In September[2007], David [Foster Wallace, then 45 years old] asked Amy to forgo her annual fall-break visit. He wasn't up to it. By October, his symptoms had become bad enough to send him to the hospital. His parents didn't know what to do. "I started worrying about that," Sally [his mother] says, "but then it seemed OK."

David Lipsky/Rolling Stone 30.Oct.08
via RW

propaganda for gods, clairvoyants and a form of theocratic thought control

I did the entire show with my fly open!

My Heart to Fear

...every whichway, through their hoops
and scorn. For the walls of health are bright...

Heather McHugh
Verse Daily

The Return

...one leopard,
one tree,

and one nameless flower
blooming discreetly
in a corner.

There was all the time in the world...

Kate Lim
Verse Daily

The Laughing Thrush

...yes this is the place and the one time
in the whole of before and after
with all of memory waking into it...

W.S. Merwin 

Verse Daily

Ancient, 26,000-year-old footprints made by a child and a dog