First Poem For You by Kim Addonizio
I like to touch your tattoos in complete
darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of
where they are, know by heart the neat
lines of lightning pulsing just above
your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue
swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent
twists, facing a dragon. When I pull you
to me, taking you until we’re spent
and quiet on the sheets, I love to kiss
the pictures in your skin. They’ll last until
you’re seared to ashes; whatever persists
or turns to pain between us, they will still
be there. Such permanence is terrifying.
So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying. Art by Ayumi Takahashi
Recommended listening: I Wish - Tom Misch Living Life - Kathy McCarty
Links of the Day: Nature Soundmap (Hear the world like never before) 8 Mysterious People Without a Past Can you spot Daft Punk on this ‘Where’s Waldo’ style festival map? The Rescued Film Project
(Good morning, folks.
There's a lot going on with The Alipore Post Offline and things are all falling into place, hence this addition to today's newsletter. There's workshops on making comics, juggling and hooping, painting like Picasso, and even Zentangling. We are collaborating with Art&Found for an art gallery, with Goobe's Book Republic for a pop-up bookstore, with Social Offline for their Drop The Needle vinyl playing session, and with many other people and organisations, small and big, for a whole bunch of interesting things at the event. :D
So Bangalore, do drop by on 17th/18th September to The Courtyard House. There's something for everybody! Follow the event page for updates, tell your friends about it, and come be a part.)