Monthly Archives: January 2014

Posted on January 7, 2014 by andrewwhiting

Entire days spent chasing suits that don’t exist and serve no purpose, Tearing money out of pocket just to find door-like cable box–– A bleary disillusionment sweeps like ice across kindled hope, And each bit of anxiety falls away and … Continue reading →

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The Pythagoreans

Posted on January 6, 2014 by andrewwhiting

“It’s never a good idea,” they told him sternly, “to urinate towards the Sun.” The forms are inverted, flipped on themselves to reveal untouched states Breaths in deep cold splitting like fractal patterns in frost spanning the windshield

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Thoughts on Biographies about Salinger, Beethoven

Posted on January 5, 2014 by andrewwhiting

Striving for greatness, or an inner peace; Dreams of creation versus an actuality of their destruction? Nature carved to fit the shape of minds, the form of transience–– raw intangibility etched into granite, like a perversion of entropy: endless impermanence. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts, 1/2/14

Posted on January 3, 2014 by andrewwhiting

No apparent change beside the calendar page/ renewed urgency Cloud like tidal wave sweeps over rivers, pastures bringing wind and cold This year will be more even than last, riddled with odd imbalance

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A Timely New Years (P)review

Posted on January 1, 2014 by andrewwhiting

I can’t believe it either––an update, by me, about the new year, right on New Year’s day? Impossible! Oh, but the world shifts ceaselessly, and anyone seems early once he’s late enough. So here’s a quick review of my year, … Continue reading →

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