poem
"The Leaving" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly from To the Place of Trumpets My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches. The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily. I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden. How many ladders to gather an orchard? I had only one and a long patience with lit hands and the looking of the stars which moved right through me the way the water moved through the canals with a voice that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering and those who had gathered before me. I put the peaches in the pond's cold water, all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors, all night my back a straight road to the sky. And then out of its own goodness, out of the far fields of the stars, the morning came, and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung, before the metal begins to long again for the clapper's stroke. The light came over the orchard. The canals were silver and then were not. and the pond was -- I could see as I laid the last peach in the water -- full of fish and eyes.
untitled work in progress by Dan Climan
watching the cloud of dust
I have been fighting the worst writer’s block this week and I really don’t have anything of note to say. Which makes me feel bad and has been manipulating me into procrastinating sending out this newsletter. But here it is, so. Here are a few screengrabs from my notes app that I just found and don’t make sense and that’s all I have to offer you today. I only remember the context of the first one - it was the first time I was in Cape Cod, Keeler and I were watching kids play on the beach and I realized for the first time I didn’t look at those children with envy because I missed that kind of weightlessness… I had it)
The rest you can explain to me. Or we can just listen to music and forget about everything. (I was quoting The Wombats in #2…it just clicked)
playlist
“Clara (the night is dark)” - Fred again…
Spotify | YouTube | Apple Music
“Shotgun - Magdalena Bay Remix” - Soccer Mommy, Magdalena Bay
Spotify | Apple Music
“Sex Symbol” - Tyla Yaweh
Spotify | Apple Music
“WITCHES BREW” - DEADPAN, Willyynova, Opollo Heights
Spotify | Apple Music
“Just Another Thing We Don’t Talk About” - Tom Odell
Spotify | YouTube | Apple Music
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recommended reading
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Montclair State University Joetta Di Bella and Fred C. Sautter III Center for Strategic Communication
Takeoff wasn’t the most visible member of Migos. But he was its heart.
Bethonie Butler for Washington Post
Why election experts worry for American democracy and what they say can be done
Tal Axelrod for ABC News
Steven Spielberg: The Original Story
Rebecca Keegan for The Hollywood Reporter
new releases this week
Drake & 21 Savage, Her Loss
Joji, SMITHEREENS
Metro Boomin, Heroes & Villians
w/ features from Future, Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky, Young Thug, NAV, Gunna, 21 Savage, Chris Brown, and Juice WRLD
Dermot Kennedy, Sonder
Selena Gomez, “My Mind & Me” (single - read about it on Rolling Stone)
owl
Look at this guy.