Two Hundred and Four 1.20.17 - Resist! Time to organize, learn, build, love, sing, dance and resist is now! This is not normal, and let us not let this go further. Prevention is much better than cure. Let there be movement building, dreaming, hoping, resisting, disobeying, disrupting! Let us build a fire that won't go … Continue reading Langston Hughes – Let America Be America Again

Two Hundred and Three 1.15.16 Dears! Sending this to you as I drink white wine from over 30 thousands feet altitude on my way from from Iran to DC, what a wild dream! Thinking of you and simplicity of leaves on trees, of tardiness of reality for lunch, of me, of time, of ego which … Continue reading Lorca – Floating Bridges

Two Hundred and Two 1.7.17 Hello from the future! It's 3:57 AM Jan 7th where I am, whereas most of you are just wrapping up your Friday, first week of the work after holidays.. some of you are tired.. some excited for the night, some maybe alone, some maybe lonely.. some of you will go … Continue reading William Stafford – Yes

Two Hundred and One 12.30.16 Ay!! Happy birthday wonderful Autumn Rose! May you always shine, may you always dance, and may you always laugh to my bad jokes my friend! Also, mad love with lots of kabab and super chill times from the motherland! I have not looked at my laptop since my flight from … Continue reading Kenneth Koch – To You

Two Hundred 12.23.16 Happy Fridaz Fam! Go easy into this holiday weekend, go with love in your heart and tenderness in your voice. Go easy and take this time to relax, to sit in the space between shadow and the soul, where poets are drunk, soul sings to bone, people read poetry, and street lights … Continue reading Pablo Neruda – XVII (I do not love you)

Will Rogers If You Feel Adrift in Time Remember We are exactly where We were always meant to be. And while it's true we will always be here and nowhere else, True this moment lasts forever, Its waves rippling out and out (and out). It's also true We will never Be here Again This moment: … Continue reading Will Rogers – If You Feel Adrift in Time

One Hundred and Ninety Nine. 12.13.16 This poem from Holan is for you. whom I have looked upon and seen rarely. For the all the times we did not see each other passing by, in the dead of the winter, heads buried in jacket collars. For all the times we held somebody else's hand, in … Continue reading Vladimir Holan – Meeting in a Lift

One Hundred and Ninety Eight 12.6.16 Sorry not sorry for the plums! And from my side - this is just to say hi to you after a while and unexpectedly like the moment you realize there's a little bubble in your soup or sun is caught in leaves just the way you like it or … Continue reading W.C. Williams – This is just to say

One Hundred and Ninety Seven 11.28.16 Leonard Cohen The book of longing I can't make the hills The system is shot I'm living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I sailed like a swan I sank like a rock But … Continue reading Leonard Cohen – The book of longing

One Hundred and Ninety Six 11.26.16 On the start of a new journey around the sun. Poets are buzzing street lights are all dancers, police are carrying flower, and you are half as far. Mary Oliver Two Kinds of Deliverance 1 Last night the geese came back, slanting fast from the blossom of the rising … Continue reading Mary Oliver – Two Kinds of Deliverance (P$ Bday)