03 11 / 2012
Big Sur (driving south on Highway 1)
In the first sweeping breath of redwood + salt + eucalyptus you acutely feel the limits of your time on this earth, with these parents, with these waves crashing on these cliffs; breathe in a little deeper, and don’t take your eyes off the road.
03 11 / 2012
Parfums MDCI, Chypre Palatin
It was all so fragile; two years after the flood we are picnicking among the ruins.
12 10 / 2012
Lancome, Ô d’azur
Before the dream, the pillowcase; before the sunset, the afternoon glaring through the plate glass.
06 10 / 2012
L’Artisan Parfumeur, Cœur de Vetiver Sacré
Lady, I am in receipt of your letter, having waited four days before slitting the envelope beneath the October sugar maples.
10 8 / 2012
L’Artisan Parfumeur, Batucada
I knew it when we first made wet handprints on the granite beside the fountain.
28 7 / 2012
Comme des Garçons, (Series 2: Red) Palisander
She unrolled the tatami mat on the beach and set to work, putting down a sonnet in mirror writing.
22 7 / 2012
L’Artisan Parfumeur, Navegar
This gold circlet was buried in a bog before the Vikings set foot on this shore.
22 7 / 2012
Phaedon, Verveine Figuier
A pencil sketch — a marble Diana — a forearm lightly brushing.
21 7 / 2012
Montale, Black Aoud
The lanky redhead with Agent Cooper eyes spoke to me again last night.
10 7 / 2012
Diptyque, Philosykos
Down among the vines, the projector flickered on the wall of the house until we ran out of stories for a languorous July night.
