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“Say after me:

I believe in the decimal,
it has divided me.”

— John Haines (from “In the Forest without Leaves”)

don’t choke.

Put it all to the torch! And the king named one by one
the towers, the gates, the temples — this marvel of the world;
then brightened, as the thought leaped into words:
“Only be sure the Poet’s House is spared.”

- Leningrad, October 1961

— Anna Akhmatova (from “Alexander at Thebes”)

trans. by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward

more macro-crop. 
from the mouth of
one endearing ess
essss roggenbuck.

www.livemylief.com

deepstep.

“Because the unconnected life / is not worth living”

—  C.D. Wright (from “And It Came To Pass” from TREMBLE)

die fülle, nun immer.

Liebe Famke. Ewig. (Musik especially für Lakey.)
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01) C.D. Wright - And It Came to Pass (Poem)
02) Maia Hirasawa - A Man from Argentina (Billie the Vision & the Dancers cover)
03) Belle & Sebastian - Come On, Sister
04) Kristin Hersh - Flooding
05) Erykah Badu - On & On
06) Gillian Welch - Silver Dagger
07) Josh Ritter - Girl in the War
08) Camera Obscura - Super Trooper (ABBA cover)
09) Dan Black - HYPNTZ (after Notorious B.I.G.)
10) Robyn & Röyksopp - The Girl and the Robot
11) Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Engel (Rammstein cover)
12) C.D. Wright - Flame (Poem)
13) Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can’t See Land
14) Indigo Girls - Beauty Queen Sister
15) Patti Smith - Gloria
16) Right Away, Great Captain! - Like Lions Do
17) Natalie Merchant - Maggie and Milly and Molly and May (after E. E. Cummings)
18) Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
19) Kevin Devine - Tomorrow’s Just Too Late
20) Billie the Vision & the Dancers - Friday I’m in Love (The Cure cover)
21) Leonard Cohen - Show Me the Place
22) C.D. Wright - Privacy (Poem)

xo. C.E.

— Jane Hirshfield (from “Fifteen Pebbles” in Come, Thief)

— Vera Pavlova (from the Russian, translated by Steven Seymour)

*film still from “Elizabeth” with Cate Blanchett