After rain: the perpetual anticipation of the next rain. Some time has passed since the last time I sat down to think of this irreducible experience, that is, when I…
The Poetics of Spaces
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Image Credit: Still from The Turin Horse, directed by Béla Tarr. The process of dying is part of living. — Dr. Drew. The thing is, that sometimes the feeling of…
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I don’t know. No, it’s a long story. I tried to leave but couldn’t. Somehow, I found the motivation. Not everyone will be taken into the future, but everything depends…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
The Poetics of Spaces: The Compromised Body
by Janice Lee October 20, 2014“People have always been divided into two groups: victims and murderers. I don’t know whether it is possible to free oneself from one group and switch over to the other…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
The Poetics of Spaces: Suspension of the Imaginary in the Real
by Janice Lee October 2, 2014Flickering routes of communication. Do you see that the memories segregate themselves according to degrees of fuzziness? Dancing across the keyboard. Tides of reflective lines. Flickering. I remember a moment…
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Can you hear blue? That feeble cousin of the voice of the sky that lingers around only long enough to be categorized as a color, then fades away into the…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
The Poetics of Spaces: Trapped Under the Sky
by Janice Lee September 15, 2014Sometimes I am just trapped under the fucking sky. A speculum of sweating and oath-making, expectations for anomalies, anomalies of expectations. Many years ago I tried to put something into…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayTravel
The Poetics of Spaces: San Francisco
by Janice Lee September 4, 2014Sometimes a place is a site of conjuration that sits, welling up, contaminated, voice and remarks reserved for later, and the secret self that is of the place takes on…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayTravel
The Poetics of Spaces: Inyo National Forest & Outward
by Janice Lee August 19, 2014Here is the perspective here: nothing else matters. An encounter at such a high altitude: more than breath, breathing. A different kind of breath. Looser. Tighter. Here to witness the…
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There are not many things as humbling as seeing the full moon through a telescope and being able to see, the moon: not as the moon you see nightly in…
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Featured Image: Wheat Field With Reaper and Sun, Vincent Van Gogh In the light there is a glimmer that sustains a thousand different images. In that light, you were, and…
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There are many things to say about Los Angeles. Most of these things I will not say because you already know them. Because a singular Los Angeles does not exist…
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Perhaps the most important thing is that the sky isn’t blue. That is, once you recognize the sky as blue, you’ve lost something. Let’s recognize that when we’re in a…
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One must be receptive, receptive to the image at the moment it appears. (from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard) In one space the safety and cleanliness of a…