“Here, at the border, is another landscape: six lanes of traffic in each direction. This is the most populated border crossing in the world. The cars coming into the United States seem scarcely to be moving, but we breeze through into Mexico, no need for passports.”
Stern, Lesley. “A Garden or a Grave? The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region.” Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, ed. by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. p. 20.
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“In it people are in narrow cracks. They aren’t fleeing in these lit bombed strands further above teal garganeys coming in flying so they touch. Is silence a single day, that a random whole? Crossing the rungs that float blossoms on sewage, the dag enters that single day that lightly grinds the cobalt though then when he’s there it is the tundra dropping motionless baseless night to be ‘a cheetah with the present’ the intention? Not windows cheetahs chute-the-chute during chrysanthemum dementia with the trembling mouth at night.”
Scalapino, Leslie. “sub-Herculean.” Dusie, 8, vol. 2, no. 4 (2009). p. 199.
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“A warm breeze bends the melilotus and sets the tall orchids
swaying.
Crossing the hall into the apartments, the ceilings and floors are
vermillion,
The chambers of polished stone, with kingfisher hangings on
jasper hooks;
Bedspreads of kingfisher seeded with pearls, all dazzling in
brightness. . . .”
Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. p. 273. From: Waley, Arthur. The Nine Songs. London: Allen & Unwin, 1955. The Mountain Spirit (Shan-kuei), Song IX, China.
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“The locker locks
From the inside. I
Is an extensive pun
Born of this confinement,
The echoes crossing
North America, the room.
The ear hears in no time.”
Perelman, Bob. “Room.” Primer. Oakland, CA: This Press, 1981, p. 51.
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“...through barriers of temperature and sunlight through barriers of sleep
your sleep is crowded
is full of migrations and disasters
commuters are bleeding on benches under a clock classrooms on islands
overshadowed by wings
children
are crossing a desert
on crutches
holding their skins
touching your face
in the dark
where people
are breathing
are sleeping…”
Antin, David, and Charles Bernstein. “constructions and discoveries.” A Conversation with David Antin. New York City, NY: Granary Books, 2002. p. 25.
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