Read my mind
You keep moments when the world becomes hard to ignore: light moving through bathwater, roots stirring in spring, a voice overheard on the tram.123
This month: Eliot makes spring an unwelcome awakening; Lowell laughs as sunlight moves through the bath. Kept together, they show how differently a bright day can feel.
The neighbourhoods of your mind
tap a word to see what it’s woven with
The World Outside
What Does Not Stay
Staying and Leaving
Close to Life
What you collect
Poems 4 · Quotes 1 · Films 1
Books 1 · Notes 1
4 of these 8 fragments are poems.
When your words were written
Your centre of gravity is the 1930s. Longest silence: 1930–2019.
3 fragments without a publication year.
The question you keep circling
When does noticing beauty become a way of making something?
A connection you didn’t see · both circle a private place
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.…
William Butler Yeats
read the whole fragmentThe day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. The sunshine pours in at the bath-room window and bores through the water in the bath-tub in lathes and planes of greenish-white.…
Amy Lowell
read the whole fragmentVoices you return to
Where you haven’t been yet
Your library stays mostly in the West, missing how writers like Gurnah or Han Kang handle memory, silence, and the weight of history.
Try Abdulrazak Gurnah · Han Kang · Arundhati Roy · Bessie Head