Because the moment is inconceivable

not present at all

the “present”

“that which is here”

space in place of time

the tongue speaks in absence

- Phoebe Giannisi

Story desviante

AR

celebrando 

o amor exclamação

coração branco

alguém escreveu

sobre a assimilação

da norma heterossexual

em um casamento queer

amor, então é 

isso interrogação

emoji de choro

The word by itself germinates

exists

beyond our decision for silence

- Phoebe Giannisi

Leaves

Phoebe Giannisi

Inside these articulations

the beginnings of language

outside of yes and no

inside only the I want

the soul with the body meeting

in all the openly

meteoric leaves

and now, see:

one of them falls slowly

to the earth

Jamais encontrara beleza na ânsia pelo impossível e nunca constatara que o possível estava além de seu alcance. Porém agora o encontrara e não conseguia achar uma resposta.

- Ayn Rand, A revolta de Atlas, sobre Dagny

Toward a definition of wildness

Anne Marie Todkill

The fox before you saw it.

The fox before it saw you.

The fox before it knew it had been seen.

You, before you had thought of the fox.

You in the moment of seeing, when you were all fox.

While I, remembering,

all that was there, will be there still

found no word to say

I'll let it pass and hold my tongue

- Christina Rossetti & Dido

Memória

AR

Luz residual

numa superfície

irrevelada

Caught afterglow thrown back from long set days, 

Caught echoes of all music passed away. 

- Christina Rossetti

no trace of memory in his eyes

- christina rossetti

O fantasma não ressuscita o passado.

Ele prova que o passado está morto.

- AR

Life might be very small victories and meanings.

Is saying “joy” a joyous thing, in and of itself?

- Max Ritvo

Study Questions:

What does time mean to Atlas?

What is symbolic? Would you like a simile?

- Max Ritvo