gyrmination

It’s one of those days I’m not sure if it’s Fall or Spring. Did I sleep through the winter last night? Piercing rays interplay with the tattered cumulus cloak, the breath is full of damp snowmelt. I feel a buzzing latency. Something will happen.

It is a luxury
to walk outside and be in the woods.
The silent mass of the woods -
the few cars that do pass are quiet
electric, almost.
Two inches, so far,
add a softness
to the ever-pockmarked Albany streets.
A traffic light changing over
may be admired for its perserverence
in increasing solitude.

A friend of mine once said that there are problems and there are difficulties. A problem is something you savor. You say, “Well that’s an interesting problem. Let me think about that problem a while.” You enjoy thinking about it, because when you find the solution to the problem, it’s enlightening.
And then there are difficulties. […]

I realized several things in afterthoughts about “Lust, Caution” after my previous post.
First, there were not two, but three times when Jiazhi’s movie experience is disrupted. If I remember correctly, in the first instance (which I had forgotten to mention before), the show is interrupted by a boorish nationalist public announcement. When the rest of […]

As the credits scrolled by, I thought to myself, “色，戒” is the perfect name for this movie. The translation into English seems more stilted; in Chinese the pair sound like they are intended to balance each other, almost as duals. Is the scale sliding from lust towards love? Or from caution to trust? In […]