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i saw an owl this weekend

Nov 3, 2022

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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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.

the disturbed universe