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B l i n k.by Teresa Zarmer

Thought.

I could write sen

tenc

es

for days if I didn’t have to use words.

Regret.

only regret a regret if you don’t learn from it.

Isolation  v.  SolitudeIsolation  v.  Solitude

If you spend too much time alone, you forget about people. Spend too much time with people and you forget about your-‐self.

“My  playhouse  is  underneath

Our  house,  &  I  hear  people

Telling  each  other  secrets.”-­  Komunyakaa

underneath

Our  house,  &  I  hear  people

Telling  each  other  

our l itt le nuclear wea

pons

that

we

give

away

with each indulgence into relieving the stress o

f main

tainin

g the

m ou

rselve

s.

 “Thoughts  are  the  shadows  of  our  feelings  -­  always  darker,  emptier,  simpler.” - Nietzche

Some thoughts are simple and complicated by circumstance, some thoughts are simple and complicated by the words assigned to them. Some thoughts are complicated and simplified by the words assigned and clarified with experience.

Thoughts are feeling and feelings are thoughts, because if we don’t think about our feelings all they are are tugs and pulls at the very back of your mind.

“I  believe  that  almost  all  our  sadnesses  are  moments  of  

-­ing  because  we  no  longer  hear  our  surprised  feelings  living.”

-­  Rilke

som

e em

otion

s live

in moments, others days, and others

in co

rner

s in

atti

cs w

ith wood and dust and dark.

“In drawing, the trace always proceeds in the night: it always escapes the !eld of vision.”

Anticipation:

-­  Calvino

using the field of vision to infer what’s outside it. you have to use what you can see to see what you can’t.

Fleas interest me so muchthat I let them bite me for hours.They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit,machines that admit of no appeal.They do not bite to eat,they bite only to jump;they are the dancers of the celestial sphere,delicate acrobatsin the softest and most profound circus;let them gallop on my skin,divulge their emotions,amuse themselves with my blood,but someone should introduce them to me.I want to know them closely,I want to know what to rely on. - Neruda

I won

der i

f the

re’s

a sin

gle " e

a som

ewhe

re what

has n

ever

seen

out

side it

s hou

se

because it refuses to jump. M

aybe we could recruit " ead to play basketball for us.

On a ve

ry ti

ny !

eld w

ith an

even

small

er b

aske

tball

. And

a ve

ry u

nluc

ky !

eld.

Sublime.“The  beautiful,  according  to  Edmund  Burke,  is  what  is  well  formed  and  aes-­thetically  pleasing,  whereas  the  sub-­lime  is  what  has  the  power  to  compel  and  destroy  us.”

bliss can be perfect but o

nly b

ecau

se it causes blindness in tandem.

a m p l i f i e d.Is your secret my problem? do I understand it? should I or would I? reveal it and to who or possi-‐bly whom?should I reveal it and should I know who to fins and make listen and would they? would they listen would I know should I know do I care? I don’t and won’t but will you? Those things that everyone says but no one un-‐derstands and so are left to us unknown or possible unsaid or possibly all of the above or possibly none.

They stick around like those objects that live in your kitchen-‐ the kind that you don’t know exactly what they do or when you acquired them but they sit by the sink all the same.

a m p l i f i e d.

f i n.

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