Listening to the rain ☔️ & reading an entry in Clarice Lispector’s *The Complete Crônicas* 1969: IF YOU MUST WRITE SOMETHING… If you must write something, at least don't squash the words that are there in between the lines. LOVE FOR THE EARTH Orange on the table. Blessed be the tree that brought you into the world.

Gene Kelly is from #Pittsburgh so… 🔥 🎶

Yesterday’s clouds (it’s after 12 here, so… 💜) #October #Saturday

This might come through twice 🤔 Morning #read *American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin* by Terrance Hayes #poetry Everytime I go to a Terrance Hayes reading— it’s 🔥

Vladimir Mayakovsky… Back in 1918, he wanted something contemporary… but was an admirer nonetheless. “On 19 January 1922, Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky gave a speech which included this declaration: "Anna Akhmatova's indoor intimacy, Vyacheslav Ivanov's mystic poems and Hellenistic themes —what meaning have they for our harsh and steely age? But how can we suddenly say writers like Ivanov and Akhmatova are worthless? Of course, as literary landmarks, as the last remnants of a crumbling order, they will find their place in the pages of histories of literature, but for us, for our age, they are pointless, pathetic and comic anachronisms" (quoted and trans. by Haight, p. 71). Yet Lily Brik, Mayakovsky's mistress for many years, said that whenever he was in love he read Akhmatova, quoting her from morning until night.”

Tonight’s section of #poems #reading “You will stop laughing before dawn.”