Today's visual poem: another to file away into the loose canon formed by the strange medical condition that is ‘young, hot, and single in new york city,’ as put by an ex coworker. Symptoms: to be young and distraught. Cure: to clutch the unbearable lightness of being, buoyed by transient glows, anchored by depths unseen.

For the best reading experiences on these — take an extra minute and take it slow, reread a couple times, let the mind simmer. Poetry demands sincere attention.

A snack to prepare the palate for today:

To say homeboy, daydream, decanter, meadowland, rhythm.
To say anything.
    To listen to the sum of every silence.
    To give a name to the space full of promise.
    And then to fall silent.

—Yuri Herrera, Kingdom Cons

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What do you do when you have people you love who live 3,000 miles away? You go see them. You receive their love and wonder at the grace to know it. You indulge in vibez. Below — a letter to my past month out west and a small tribute to Seattle, Portland, SF, LA and their beautiful inhabitants. (Also a response to my mother recently asking me 什么是 vibe? Translated: what is vibe? Answer: This is viiibe.)

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"An adventure time was, if you calmed yourself to its receipt."
—Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic

Hi, friends.

The world and our hearts are still at war and it shows no signs of ceasing. Madness. Calling for artists to give language and sign and tribute to terrible times.

But art is hard. Hearts are harried. Who has time to receive the adventure of time?

These past weeks I did things like pick up a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie at a bake sale for Ukraine. Watch Questlove's spirited Summer of Soul, Taylor Swift's raw folklore studio sessions, Min Jin Lee's epic Pachinko. Play Connect 4 at a dive bar. Sip lambrusco at a pizza bar. Twirl in a dance bar. Loosen the creative impulses otherwise held taut by the demands of daily work. Till the soil for new seedlings.

With that, a little illustrated photo poem on love, life, and labor.

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