5 – Little Bristling Soul

Letter to Carl George from Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May 12, 1988

Anselm Kiefer, The Obscure Clarity that Falls from the Stars, 1996, acrylic, 0il, emulsion, sunflower seeds on canvas

Mount Eerie: “You Swan, Go On”

Jenny Holzer

Make this Bed with Awe

Ample make this Bed—
by Emily Dickinson

Ample make this Bed—
Make this Bed with Awe—
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.

Be its Mattress straight—
Be its Pillow round—
Let no Sunrise’ yellow noise
Interrupt this Ground—

Wasn’t this poem heart-melting enuf without Sophie’s Choice getting itself all mixed up with it?

Mary Oliver

Alex Dimitrov

Letter to Carl George from Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Postmarked June 21, 1988. (Detail) © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation

Postcard from Ross Laycock and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Drawing by Felix. Postmarked April 9, 1987, Canada. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation

AT A WATERFALL, REYKJAVIK

lunchboxpoems:

I still feel like
the world
is a piece
of bread

I’m holding
out half
to you.

EILEEN MYLES