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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 5h

circular reasoning — like the man who once told me “I need guns.” I asked “Why?” “To protect my guns.”

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 13h

wonderful title

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 13h

Mountains & Valleys

In stones, in clouds,
rounding a corner on
a train or bus . . .

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 13h

For the sun has also a stem, on which it turns.

-Ronald Johnson

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 17h

in the last field, where the deep eye
is altar,
a last stone
is stammering another.

-Gustaf Sobin

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 1d

By the roadside the little tea-urns are set up; milk silently clothes the black idol; the sky enlarges the inescapable spell.

-Lewis Thompson,
Indian notebook, 1933-37

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 1d

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 1d

Earth a cinder cool to the touch

-Elizabeth Arnold

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 1d

… having looked at (only) a small part
of existence during their lives, doomed
to perish swiftly like smoke they are
carried aloft and wafted away, believing
only that upon which as individuals
they chance to hit as they wander in
all directions …

-Empedocles
(tr, Kathleen Freeman)

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 2d

Out of Juan José Saer’s unfinished La Grande: the phenomenology of apprehending the “uninterrupted flight” of the world. Memory (and reading, and writing) as “a series of disconnected and ecstatic fragments.” (Died in Paris 11 June 2005, leaving only title and first line of a projected 20 pp. coda.)

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

Nasturtiums lying on delicate lace. / Ivory rings set with sapphires. / Smell of black coal in the thicket of junipers. / Holes in quasars. / Aminos. / Raindrops.

-Michael McClure

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

The cold is a bond.

-Archelâus,
Physiologia

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

3.29 a.m. clear, cold … a wide halo around the moon … Orion overhead

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

The new morning, fresh and still, washed by last night’s wind and rain, all delicate blue and grey, complicated clouds. The river like frosted glass.

-Lewis Thompson,
Journals, 21.IV.45.

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?
Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:
Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?
Or Love in a golden bowl?

-William Blake

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 2d

Prentiss Moore

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 3d

is it good?

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 3d

Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception.

-William Blake

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 3d

What steady eye outstares the sun?
That eye grows black with light:
Seer, seeing, visible made one,
Sleep wakes past day and night.

-Lewis Thompson

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 3d

We give the name Iris
to the reflection
of the sun
on the clouds.
It is the sign of a storm,
for the water
which flows round
the cloud
produces wind
or forces out rain.

-Anaxagoras

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 3d

A worm sliding with its soft body
through an open wound—
what does it know of this world?
What have I learned
of the poem that Tirumāl, in his guile,
utters to himself
through me?
Some would say it’s like
the clicks of a gecko,
as old as old can be.

-Nammālvār
(tr. David Shulman)

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 3d

“algorithmically tuned confection” — perfect

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 3d

🙏so few people know of them!

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