What Light, by Wilco [Annotated Readings]
Seeking further light and knowledge from their 2007 album Sky Blue Sky.
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
When you’re in your little room, and you’re working on something good…
Orphans, by Beck (Annotated)
Note: this is the first in a series of Annotated Readings, in which we reimagine and annotate diverse texts as if they were written from a latter-day saint’s perspective. Think I’m stranded but I don’t know where[1]Here we find Adam, representing the archetypal man, lost and alone in the Garden of Eden, having forgotten everythingI […]
Translation I
“In translation we lend our lives—our minds, our ears, our mouths—to the local resurrection of old texts, dead words, and lost voices.”
~ Adam S. Miller
Upon Killing a Bee
Before murder, I briefly considered opening the window and letting the bee bumble elsewhere, but saw the screen would keep it trapped.
The Essayist Backstage
It shouts, thrashes, and bellows just to be heard in marginalized corners, and it cries out for a lover or to a lover or after a lover: lonesome, vulnerable, cocksure, embittered, impassioned, and exultant in turn in any taxonomy.