music clip of the day

alone

Valentin Silvestrov (1937-, piano, compositions), Bagatelles – VIII (2018)

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lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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reading table

Think how they must look now, the mangrove keys
lying out there unresponsive to the lightning
in dark, coarse-fibred families,

where occasionally a heron may undo his head,
shake up his feathers, make an uncertain comment
when the surrounding water shines.

—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “Little Exercise”