Danez Smith: i'm going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense

Charles Laughton reading 'The Night of the Hunter'

Charles Laughton reading 'The Night of the Hunter'

Running up that hill cover

Edward Gorey

Gorey - animated!

Nijinsky, 1939

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Claudio Parmiggiani Broken Labyrinth, 2014

 From Denis Copper's blog 

Claudio Parmiggiani Broken Labyrinth, 2014
‘The Claudio Parmiggiani installation, which is located in Bologna, takes on the form of a stunning glass labyrinth. Although this may seem to defeat the purpose of such a maze, it could arguably make the experience even more frustrating. The transparent walls would theoretically trick people even more as they blend together to form a big glass case around its victim. Lab rats are often put into similar mazes, after all.

‘But what makes the Claudio Parmiggiani installation particularly intriguing is what happens after it is built. The artist, who lives and works in Parma, Italy, shatters it. The clear labyrinth was so puzzling because it could only be broken out of, not walked as is the case with traditional mazes.’

 

 

Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film

Rio Cortez

Aging, at all. I want that. And to fall perhaps most honestly in love beside the ocean, in a home I’ve paid for by doing as I like: drinking good wine, dusting sugar over a croissant, or the stage play I’m writing myself into. Aging Black woman in neutral summer turtleneck. Known. And jogging. Lonesome enough. Eating homemade lavender ice cream, the moon blooming through the kitchen window. The distant sound of waves. Learning French as a second language. Votre pâte merveilleux, I smile back. And then, just like that! Falling, cautiously, for my busy, middle-aged lover, who needs me, but has never truly seen me until now. Our Black friends, celebrating with hors d’oeuvres. Our Black children growing older.

Copyright © 2022 by Rio Cortez. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 22, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.