“ I love the notion of performed spontaneity, in that it gets at the fact that what seems natural, or improvisational, is still a product of decision making, and still leads to a consciously made thing—a mechanical nightingale rather than the real bird that happens to fly in the window.” Diane Seuss interview with Jesse Nathan …
Author Archives: lara
Fragment — August 2023
for a moonthat spins slowlyand echoes our fugitive secrets lwh
My Life As Your Car Keys
My Life as Your Car Keys You felt in your pocket I wasn’t there You checked your coat I wasn’t there You asked the guy next to you I had been in the corner You asked the girl in the corner I had been in someone else’s hand
In Autumn
yellow moon becomes amber mum becomes question of bridges that go nowhere becomes smell of paper, hot out of the printer becomes something golden that was alive just yesterday but today smells newly, richly dead. First published in Door is a Jar
Fragment
a winter state of being where all traction is lost but the wonder is unending lwh