4:12 PM 10/25/01 () I lived in a tree. The dream specified pine, as though it thought I needed prompting to keep mourning. I hate when your own dreams treat you as stupid. --Louise Gluck, Condo
5:02 PM 10/15/01 () She sang beyond the genius of the sea. The water never formed to mind or voice, Like a body wholly body, fluttering Its empty sleeves; --Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West
11:54 PM 10/11/01 () in the rush of breath a window of revolution allowed you on this jaundiced stair in this huge lashed eye these footsteps I'm following you with --Adrienne Rich, Modotti
4:23 PM 10/05/01 () and yesterday it seemed true that suddenly inside of the newspaper there was a powerline and my heart stopped --Lisa Jarnot, Brooklyn Anchorage
1:39 PM 10/03/01 () Take hold of the shaft of the pen Subscribe to the first step taken From a justified line Into the margin. --Seamus Heaney, First Gloss
1:53 PM 09/25/01 () Between a door ajar and a room within there seems to lie the life, heavy with skill, dark to fingertips a surface clogged with shadow --Adrian Dannatt, After a Giselle Freund Photograph
4:53 PM 09/24/01 () I used to admire the surrealism of rock lyrics, the wild non- sequiturs. Then I realized it was just my fucking ears. --Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
9:44 AM 09/18/01 () I say iridescent and I look down. The leaves very still as they are carried. --Jorie Graham, The Surface
1:52 PM 09/12/01 (steve burt) there's not enough poured concrete and brassy reflections --Frank O'Hara, Walking
10:25 AM 09/10/01 () Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, --John Ashbery, At North Farm
