Bardo

Death and the high notes.

tiny pieces of broken glass in grayscale photography

A matter if tuning: the singer to the frequency of glass, the virus to its host, death as the explosion of a vase. Contents of the vase move inside out, and no distinction remains. 

Before the glass shatters, it shudders. If you watch in slow motion, you’ll see it. To be moved deeply by what is well-tuned is to be on the verge of breaking into pieces until there is no longer a body to break.

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Notes while reading Timothy Morton’s Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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