The sky runs toward me, laughing like a child

I really don't know clouds at all.
 

-Joni Mitchell

 

Image: Found
 

Title: Yves Bonnefoy, from “The Painter Named Snow”

Sight

Elsewhere unseen.

Image: Molly Taylor sorts through a pile of eyes, London, 1933

So Many Stones (Or: The Turret’s Cage is Shapely)

Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place for 

 

it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place for 

 

it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place for 

 

it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place for 

 

it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place 

 

for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the 

 

place for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or 

 

the place for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time 

 

or the place for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the 

 

time or the place for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find 

 

the time or the place for it.

-Raymond Carver, on "things too tedious to talk about" +

Image: Gao Xingjian, Forêt vierge, 2006

Title: Anna Akhmatova, from "Solitude"

To make this place another

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
-Marguerite Duras

Image: Petah Coyne, Untitled # 735 (Monks II), 1992
Title: Susan Sontag from the essay, “Unguided Tour”

Hesitantly, like scattered islands

"We go forward and backward, and there is no place."
-Rosmarie Waldrop, "Conversation 4: On Place,” from Reluctant Gravities +

Image: Danny Lyon, The Walls: Cell Block Table, 1964
Title: Nod to Rilke (who else?), from The Book of Hours I, 18