Christian Molenaar

Category: Nothings

  • Nonsense Quotes

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    Carlos Saura, the director of The Hunt (during his film festival visit to New York — after viewing Thanatopsis, Vivian, Chulum, Jerovi, The Dead and Amphetamine): Read more

  • The Pink of Morning

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    I’m loosed from my bed, an arrowand sit in the ringinghollow darknessand go out hollow into the colddark wanderinguntil the skyis latticed by the pink of morning Read more

  • Line Breaks, Wine Breaks

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    Dorothea Lasky in The Paris Review: Read more

  • August 26, 17—

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    The myth is unchained: it staggers north,insane. A ghost of lightning glowsin its eyes; its slow hands close in wrathlike child’s hands seizing flowers. Read more

  • Letting Go

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    From the journals of Bernice Bing Read more

  • There Will Come Soft Rains

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    “Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, “in the city of Allendale, California.” Read more

  • Remarkable Characters

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    July 29th. — Remarkable characters: — A disagreeable figure, waning from middle age, clad in a pair of tow homespun pantaloons, and a very soiled shirt, barefoot, and with one of his feet maimed by an axe; also an arm amputated two or three inches below the elbow. His beard of a week’s growth, grim… Read more

  • Fantasy of Music and Flowers

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    That evening they led the Apaches through the town of Gallego, the street a mud gutter patrolled by swine and wretched hairless dogs. It appeared deserted. The young corn in the roadside fields had been washed by recent rains and stood white and luminous, bleached almost transparent by the sun. They rode most of the… Read more

  • I Am the Black Tarantula

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    [7/20/73] I become a man and a woman: Read more

  • Insomnia

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    Sunday, 19 July, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. Read more

Thought:

“Swelling up before noon, I dreamt
my abalone ring came apart
Live fish and shell peeled off
my finger, in a retail store
of which you were the owner.”

Maggie Nelson | “September 2”

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