silence splintering
- arthur yap
i’m not very sure
of the heuristics of such phrases:
‘social interaction’ & ‘behavioural objectives’,
which i hear often

- arthur yap
splinters of sunlight, filtering through a paulownia
suave wind
- arthur yap
words were on the lake; sea-mews spanning circles,
- arthur yap
when one wonders how to begin to talk
about something, the word swallows the world.
the word comes close to carrying its own ontology,

- arthur yap
Language is the house of Being.
- Martin Heidegger
a rule of eyes: be careful in the search
of adventure, it’s very easy to find.

- arthur yap
How many false things
have I realized

each one a small
joy.

- Rae Armantrout
Husbands and Wives (1992) → Sentimental (2020) → The Invite (2026)
If beauty is what matters,
we’ll enjoy it

for nothing, from nowhere,

no matter who
is gone.

- Rae Armantrout
What is the meaning of disquiet?

How does it differ
from anxiety

commotion?

- Rae Armantrout
Question:

How are beauty
and meaning
connected?

Beauty seduces meaning.
Meaning stalks beauty.

Beauty breaks down
into meaning.

Meaning breaks down
into dreams.

- Rae Armantrout
Do I believe
that formulating
a problem
in the starkest
possible way
while making strange
and conspicuous
word choices
is helpful?

What if the answer
is no?

- Rae Armantrout
colonialism broke us, and we’re still figuring out how to love and be 
broken at the same time.

- billy-ray belcourt
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