New Apartment

so, new year, new stop.  we’re off the myrtle stop now.  I like the JMZ because the L is so crowded, but we are a bit farther from some ppl now.  anyways this was yesterday, brooklyn is pretty cold, but looks nice.  Brief apt pics after the cut.

It’s a loft again, not nearly as huge as our current place, but is still about 700 sf, which isn’t shabby.  And a bit more affordable.  It has reasonable heating utilities, in bldg. laundry and roof terrace access and stuff which is nice.  The building is an artist colony of sorts built in an old opera house.  

a shot looking back at the entrance.  There are plans in the works to make a bedroom, and lots of shelving that will hopefully get drawn up this week and materials bought on sunday.

Also has large windows we can use, they don’t start above the 6′ mark like our current place.  And they have screens!  such luxury.  It’s a nice view out over bushwick.  This place also boasts no constant sawing and hammering during the day, no internet cables getting cut accidentally, twice, or noxious epoxy fumes or floor finish fumes wafting into the apartment, falling buckets of sludge, etc.  oh yeah and mail that’s put in a mailbox.  GLORIOUS!!!

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AN UPWARD LOOK

Oh heart green acre          sown with salt
by the departing          occupier

lay down your gallant          spears of wheat
Salt of the earth           each stellar pinch

flung in blind           defiance backwards
now takes its toll           Up from his quieted

quarry the lover          colder and wiser
hauling himself          finds the world turning

toys triumphs          toxins into
this vast facility           the living come
dearest to die in           How did it happen

In bright alternation           minutely mirrored
Within the thinking           of each and every

mortal creature           halves of a clue
approach the earthlinghts          Morning star

evening star           salt of the sky
First the grave           dissolving into dawn

then the crucial           recrystallizing
from the inmost depths           of clear dark blue

An Upward Look By James Merrill

Better late than never I guess, apologies this took so long to put up.

An Upward Look was our (Jefferson, Laura, Hannah, and myself) entry to the Chicago Hole Competition “MINE THE GAP” which won an honorable mention. The content consisted of the two boards above, you can click them to enlarge if you want to see some of the detail, or at least as much as a online image can offer.  I hope you enjoy.