Nov 21, 2022

Week 46-22 - Curiosities

ESSAY

"Total Eclipse" by Annie Dillard
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-dillards-total-eclipse/536148/
"Some tasteless fate presses it upon you; it becomes part of the complex interior junk you carry with you wherever you go."

"The Fourth State of Matter" by Jo Ann Beard
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/06/24/the-fourth-state-of-matter
A gutting story of Jo Ann Beard at the end of her 1st stage of life.

Poetry

"Awaking in New York" by Maya Angelou
https://www.bustle.com/articles/155681-9-poems-about-new-york-city
Curtains forcing their will
against the wind,
children sleep,
exchanging dreams with
seraphim. The city
drags itself awake on
subway straps; and
I, an alarm, awake as a
rumor of war,
lie stretching into dawn,
unasked and unheeded.

"Quatrain of the Body's Sleep" by Annie Dillard
I lure sleep. I bait sleep in with my white throat.
I pretend to be asleep. Then everything happens at once.
Sleep wraps me round in his dim coat;
I weep; you leap from your corner and dance.