#70 - travelling poems
Art by Gabriele Münter
Stationery by Agha Shahid Ali
The moon did not become the sun.
It just fell on the desert
in great sheets, reams
of silver handmade by you.
The night is your cottage industry now,
the day is your brisk emporium.
The world is full of paper.
Write to me.
Other poems I've enjoyed reading:
"Night from a railroad car window
Is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light."
-Window by Carl Sandburg
"If I seek a lovelier part,
Where I travel goes my heart;
Where I stray my thought must go;
With me wanders my desire.
Best to sit and watch the snow,
Turn the lock, and poke the fire."
-from Hearthside by Dorothy Parker
"Inside my mother
I peered through a glass porthole.
The world beyond was hot and brown.
They were all looking in on me –
Father, Grandmother,
the cook’s boy, the sweeper-girl,
the bullock with the sharp
shoulderblades,
the local politicians.
My English grandmother
took a telescope
and gazed across continents."
-from The Sari by Moniza Alvi
"To see the world beyond the skies,
to know the mind behind the eyes,
To find the many in the one
he showed us stars behind the sun."
-from In Transit by Neil Gaiman
"Air out the linens, unlatch the shutters on the eastern side,
and maybe find that deck of Bicycle cards
lost near the sofa. Or maybe walk around
and look out the back windows first.
I hear the view's magnificent: old silent pines
leading down to the lakeside, layer upon layer
of magnificent light."
-from If You Get There Before I Do by Dick Allen
Recommended Listening:
New Breed - James BKS feat. Q-Tip, Idris Elba & Little Simz (cool video, bro)
Mapache - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
Links of the Week:
You've Got Mail + The Best of the Edward Gorey Envelope Art Contest
I’m a refugee of the world – Ai Weiwei
Working From Home: A Beginner’s Guide
The Earth looks pretty nice without humans
Instagram Loving:
Rema Chaudhary (I'll be in Bombay this weekend to check out her debut photography exhibition at Method Art Space.)
Finally, I'm thrilled to invite you all to participate in this year's Secret Santa gifting tradition! Fill up this form before 11.59pm on December 8th to be a part. :)
Ho! Ho! Ho!
-Rohini/Master Santa