A visual essay on attention. "There is a certain kind of attention we offer to works of art. We need to be invited to turn that kind of attention on other sights. The object above is a tool for evoking this attention. It’s called a Claude Glass."

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We all care about the dawn of time because it is fun to mention, of course, but we also like the dawn of time because it was the start of time.

Selections from the editors' diaries.
"I'm flattered to be a destination from which my friends may post flirtations."
"Newspaper poetry is heavy on metonymy and avoids the passive voice."

Art by incarcerated writer and artist Joseph Dole, who is serving a life sentence at Stateville Correctional Center.

Branko noticed, on his digital map, a more valuable creature called a Serbox. It was extracting and retracting tongues from its hands. It was dancing like a Cossack outside of a destroyed public housing project.

The contemplation of Christ’s broken body and shed blood does draw us in towards ourselves, then, but not in Kantian contemplation of the moral law within.

"LOVE CONQUERS ALL", moistening the sand.

A crossword by Nathaniel Sandalow Ash: "Subcontinental Sovereign." "Crepuscular Hamster Alternative." "Putz."

We regret to inform you the following classes have been cancelled this year. Trigger warnings were too strong this fall and we could not keep up with them.

oh look, oxtail soup,
oh look, throng in corridor,
oh look, leagues of Sung Tongs pustule,
oh look, lake como play tide in a movie,
oh look, of all stripes pruning the hedges

“Come into animal presence. / No man is so guileless as the serpent.” Denise Levertov - “Come into Animal Presence” (1961)

keep in mind the potters teach / keep in mind the pots and bottles hold / what the days and trading hearts intend / Oh to touch the dream / That hides inside and never's seen

In the Uber ride to the clinic, I convinced my driver to get vaccinated and helped him schedule an appointment. The clinic brands itself as a one-stop-shop for INNOVATIVE and EXPRESS care, delivered on-demand. The Uber driver identified the location as a former Mini Cooper dealership.

Mouse Magazine has reason to speculate the snub of Bob Dylan by soon-to-be dropout college commies is what inspired the famous spite ballad “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and changed music and American history, forever.

Beyond the entrance of the swimming pool and down the stairs we descended into the museum dedicated to the people of this valley.

A photo album from the Brazilian Exhibition at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889.

Just when I thought the milieu of emptiness
Was at the end of its patience
They violate this material and it is only a body
It does not have the principle of its movement in itself

This kind of attention always invites fulfillment in further attention, further holding-open of space for its object.