You’re in the presence of a god, back from the dead.
1. James Nasmyth, photographer, Mercator and Campanus Plate XV from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, 1874. Woodburytype, Image: 17.7 x 13.5 cm, Sheet: 27 x 20.4 cm, Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm. Purchase, with funds donated by Stephen Brown and Brenda Woods, 2012. 2011/288 © 2018 Art Gallery of Ontario.
2. Maurice Loewy and Pierre Henri Puiseux, photographers, Photographe
Lunaire, Pole Sud Schickhard Gassendi Plate XXX from “Atlas
Photographique de la Lune” Portfolio, 1903. Photogravure, Image: 58.2 x
47.5 cm, Sheet: 79.5 x 60 cm. Malcolmson Collection. Gift of Harry and
Ann Malcolmson in partnership with a private donor, 2014. 2014/594.4 ©
2018 Art Gallery of Ontario.
“This is the time of year when I would rip myself apart if I thought it would do any good.”
— Nate Pritts, LIFE EVENT, published in POWDER KEG
I pronounce my heart
an open wound that disobeys
— S. K. Grout, from “Corvus,” to be female is to be interrogated
“Don’t feed it / My friend warns me / But my heart is just there / How can I stop the monster’s / Small mouth from opening / When it wants so much and I / Want to be needed”
— Angela Veronica Wong, from “On Weathering,” published in The Shallow Ends