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slugonabike:Creeping raspberry

slugonabike:

Creeping raspberry

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading..."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief."

- Franz Kafka (via howfreeitis)

from Digging (old poem I'm resurrecting)

I said blue spruce.  My very own tree.

He brought it home from the Beaverlodge nursery.

We squashed anthills with our rubber boots and watched the ants run,

poisoned aphids, followed tire tracks in the grass,

scraped our arms on raspberry bushes.  He put his boot

on the shovel and dug a hole, and lowered the roots, my blue spruce.

It never grew, among the choke-cherry trees,

among the pin-cherry trees.

Poppy porn! I miss June, already.

Poppy porn! I miss June, already.

"Lepers of the moonall magically diseasedwe come among youinnocentof our luminous sores"

"Lepers of the moon

all magically diseased

we come among you

innocent

of our luminous sores"

- Mina Loy, "Apology of Genius," from The Lost Lunar Baedeker

From today… coneflower just starting to bloom.

From today… coneflower just starting to bloom.

from These seem to be the most interesting SNPs (work in progress)

More likely to bald

Your CYP1A2 fast metabolizer status means that you are less stimulated

gs184Magnitude: 1.2

normal ability for bitterness

This SNP is is found in an intergenetic part of chromosome 3. Along with rs534654 and rs1534891, rs6442925, is part of a 3-SNP (multi-locus) interaction associated with bipolar disorder.

Ah, chives. How well you grow and spread your chivey goodness...

Ah, chives. How well you grow and spread your chivey goodness throughout my garden with those little black seeds.

from Archive (work in progress)

Think this way. The tree grows exponentially until

it covers the whole sky, a very small earth

in the shadow of multiplying strands.

As small as paradise is small.

So the tree folds and folds, pressed

wood board, maybe even with Jesus chips in a Dan Browny sort of way, only not,

for it's commonplace, undramatic wood board, to every peasant fibre, or not,

because it's also royal to the grain.

Which is to say: we are the world: except:

for the billions of strand ends, the evolutionary knockouts,

who mutated out of contention,

whose nads didn't work,

who nearsightedly ran into bears,

who took a stand on procreation,

whose crime-fighting superpowers got them killed.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

cup of tea