Understanding how things work at a mechanical level is part of understanding there design. mechanical-pencil.com #design #designthinking

1st lines Kiss of precious stones, oblivion of blood, beautiful as the unleashed memory of fresh forgetting, revenge rose up with the day's ear, and all the vanilla dust that weaves the night's flesh, ... From ......And the Dogs Were Silent by Aimé Césaire tr by Alex Gil 1944 #1stlines #poetry

Undulation Part three of an exploration of hyperobects. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/undulation #poerty #haiku #renga #time #OOO #hyperobjects

1st lines Desire desire in memoriam flight of liturgical dress first face of the world sedition of long centuries desire with all its starry lips the sky kisses the cherries. From ......And the Dogs Were Silent by Aimé Césaire tr by Alex Gil 1944 #1stlines #poetry #drama #translation #Martinique

Design books The Albanian Files by Anneke Abhelakh www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/albanian-files #Booksky #books #design #designbooks #architecture

1825: Finishd planting my Ariculas - went a-Botanizing after Ferns & Orchises & caught a cold in the wet grass which has made me as bad as ever - got the tune of 'Highland Mary' from Wisdom Smith a gipsey & pricked another sweet tune without name as he fiddled it

René Char (tr. Dawn-Michelle Baude)

Nandalal Bose / The Waves

An Open Letter to Albertans on Division and Dignity by Jaed Wesley via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... #Canada #Alberta #democracy #referendum

1st lines What is also mine: a small cell in the Jura, a small cell, the snow the double of white bars the snow is a white jailer who stands guard in front of a prison From ......And the Dogs Were Silent by Aimé Césaire tr by Alex Gil 1944 #1stlines #poetry #drama #translation

Bottom trawling needs to stop, everywhere, now It has no place is a sustainable fishery Bottom Trawling Is Scraping Oceans of Life by Sarah Foster and Amanda Vincent via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... #Fishing #trawling #sustainability

1st lines The Recitante I say this country is an ulcer. The Recitant I say this land burns. The Recitante I warn you: woe to those who come into content with its resin. From And the Dogs Were Silent by Aimé Césaire tr by Alex Gil 1944 #1stlines #poetry #drama #translation

Fascinating piece on how crows live in Vancouver and their flyways. www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2019/04... #Canada #BC #Vancouver #crows

Today's notebook.

Today's notebook

Nandalal Bose / Untitled (Goat)

Nandalal Bose / Untitled (Waves)

1st lines A letter from Ishinomaki acres almost cleared of wreckage here and there a building standing blank stares of empty window-frames a wall-less kitchen, a lampshade swinging in the wind smashed machinery in a burst-open workshop Paul Rossiter from From the Japanese 2011 #1stnotes #poetry

May raw notes The month began in Paris and mid month I went to Galliano Island. Began a deep study of renga. Continued to work with object oriented ontology and hyperobjects. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/may-raw-no... #poetry #haiku #notes #reading #Paris #Galliano #Vancouver

M. Prishvin / from Nature’s Diary (tr. L. Navrozov)

Plan to see this exhibition tomorrow. A Stunning Exploration of Climate Grief by Dorothy Wodend via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026... #Canada #BC #Vancouver #art #VAG #climatechange

Writing as hyperobject take two, nonlocality. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/nonlocality #poetry #haiku #haibun #OOO #hyperobjects #embeddings

Harry Partch's ear opening collection of instruments and his way of composing with new instruments and sound spaces ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZj... #music #instruments #Partch

1st lines A passing traveller. My rush raincoat, my broad-brimmed hat of nettle wood, hang on a post above my pillow. Daytime, and people come -- villagers from the foot of the mountain From Paul Rossitor Basho: After Matsuo Basho's Genjuam no Fu, 1969 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #basho

Today's notebook

1st lines So moping flat and low our valleys lie So dull and muggy in our winter sky Drizzling from day to day dull threats of rain And when that falls still threatening on again From one wet week so great an ocean flows ... John Clare around 1828 #poetry #England #Clare #Helpston

Viscosity, a set of threads around the viscosity of language and writing. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/viscosity #poetry #haiku #hyperobjects #viscosity

1st lines time trusting solid and fume, I am in want of something fluid in the metals of the killing industry thrusting you open, me against such strange depths at 8 a.m. on a Monday, new to tinnitus, Anne, ... From The World After Rain by Canisia Lubrin 2025 #1stlines #poetry #Canada

1st lines in this submerged stretch, for once, even the villages are experimental this is no village without verdures clung to march taking lessons from still births, your peace-green house inherits mornings ... From The World After Rain by Canisia Lubrin 2025 #1stlines #poetry #Canada

1st lines it is time again for rivers wounding down the vital pulse of undoing death, you arrive on a piece of paper and ancient as rice, my gnash of water meets your woodsmoke, your oven-time given more honest eyes ... From The World After Rain by Canisia Lubrin 2025 #1stlines #poetry #Canada

Active Pass to Montague Harbour 3 of 3 Gulls some grebes A cormorant fishing along The current lines Tide slipping against The line of salinity where The river enters Water flooding over The ledge drop ripples Attracting seals #poetry #haiku #BC #tide #current

Active Pass to Montague Harbour 2 of 3 Pull on the boat As it rides over Different surfaces Life flourishing along The lines of force dissipating As nourishment upwells Minnows flickering Along the line where Two currents meet #poetry #haiku #water #tide #current

Active Pass to Montague Harbour 1 of 3 Eddies where the Surfaces elide dispersing Tension Current lines Where salinity or temperatures Begin to touch Water rippling as The tide drops over Ledges in the flow #poetry #haiku #BC

1st lines One Raven (or that snag that makes a god of story) shadow on bough beak speaks. shape earth in cloud spear of light on. chacoal-brittle-bird-muzzle eye blinks ambit blanks out black-beaked gargoyle ... #1stlines #poetry From As If a Raven by Yvonne Blomer 2015

Notebook a few days ago and this morning.

Notebook today

New paintings.

Was just on Galliano for a few days ... listening to people talk and watching their interactions it felt like a strong community. How BC's Rural Islands Became Hotbeds of Comedy by Jackie Wong via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026... #Canada #BC #Galliano #standup

Fascinating post by Sean Carroll on the deep reasons for causality. Integrates Judea Pearl's approach. www.santafe.edu/events/cause... #causality #time #entropy #physics

Galliano Island Forms #Canada #BC #Galliano #form

1st lines On oiled wood of that all-encompassing Ark the Ostrich and other birds of its kind-- large eyed / long limbed / flightless -- above them, the sky adrift on a cloud: a rainbow formed of feathers, something ... #1stlines #poetry From As If a Raven by Yvonne Blomer 2015

Oxeye is an excellent place for a coffee or some food on Galliano Island. Best crueller I have had anywhere ever. www.oxeyegaliano.com #Canada #BC #GulfIslands #Galliano #coffee #donuts

Was on Galliano Island for a few days and went Kayaking around Parker Island in Montague Harbour. #Canada #BC #Galliano #MontagueHarbour #clouds

1st lines While children peddle alligator milk a melody plays beneath the arbor, a dog's spine seems a resting place for the oldest folk, a gound bowl full of coins in exchange for a cigarette ... From Carapace Dancer by Natalia Toledo tr by Clare Sullivan 2016 #1stlines #poetry #Mexico #Zapotec

1stlines Mantis mantis I want to know which way did my lover go? I know the star's breath I loved you with is finished. I also know your music lulled my heart but now is hushed. Today a dragonfly From Carapace Dancer by Natalia Toledo tr by Clare Sullivan 2016 #1stlines #poetry #Mexico #Zapotec

1stlines We say, "Those men are so happy, a pole across their shoulder strung with chickens, with their pigs and their oxen." They walk along happily drinking coyol root punch, ... From Carapace Dancer by Natalia Toledo tr by Clare Sullivan 2016 #1stlines #poetry #Mexico #Zapotec

Kaito Forth {Re} Recollect Reconnect Repair Exhibition of his photos this week at Space Lab 638 East Hastings (one of the most interesting places in Vancouver, worth a visit for its own quirky value if you have never been). #Vancouver #art #photographs #Chinatown

My wife and I at play ... Neck stretching up Then towards each other Before we start our game Honking ‘hink’ and ‘a honk’ with each other We play goose Am reading A Guide to Bird Behavior by Donald Stokes #haiku #poetry #birds #CanadaGeese #play

1st lines It's spring, it's spring! Water runs cheerfully from the faucet From Kamakura Sayumi Applause for a Cloud translated by James Shea 2025

Listening to the small Sounds of her hands working Snip and rasp of thread #haiku #poetry #home