From Nick Flynn’s poem “Swarm” (NER 23.1).
Cosmos. Lungwort. Utter each
& break
into a thousand versions of yourself.
You can’t tell your stories fast enough.
The answer is not one, but also
not two.
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A Snail's Pace | Corinne Purtill
In January 1941, after a lifetime of abdominal pains, Henri Matisse readied himself for an operation to remove fourteen inches of his ruined colon. Prudently, given the risks of radical surgery in prewar France, he also prepared to die. Amid the letters and bequests, he expressed to his doctors a wish for three more years of life—the time needed, he believed, “to bring my work to a conclusion.” [Read more]
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