grey room

Although you sit in a room that is gray,
Except for the silver
Of the straw-paper,
And pick
At your pale white gown;
Or lift one of the green beads
Of your necklace,
To let it fall;
Or gaze at your green fan
Printed with the red branches of a red willow;
Or, with one finger,
Move the leaf in the bowl--
The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia
Beside you...
What is all this?
I know how furiously your heart is beating.

-Wallace Stevens

science tatoos

linky

I won't be getting one, but I'm impressed by the devotion to the cause(s).

nota bene: set design by George Nelson.

May 2008 - the books.

*Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

*Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote

*The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall

*Runaway, Alice Munro

*The Cheese Monkeys, Chip Kidd

*Days Between Stations, Steve Erickson

*On the Shortness of Life, Seneca