• oh
• hush
• bittersweet
• voluptuous (sounds of the sea)
• wilderness
• enchant
• ethereal
• opulence
• murmurous
• penumbra (a half-shadow)
• déjà vu
• poppy
• faery
• midsummer
• swoon
• endearing

• "la muchacha más preciosa del mundo"
• "sweet dreams" for goodbye
• sign on the road: "soft shoulders"
• (when the little boy saw our empty shoes by the riverbank) "mom, mom- how do they stand up with nobody in them?"

• The lawn /is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return /gently at twilight, gently go at dawn /the sad intangible who grieve and yearn. -T.S. Eliot
• We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life. Our body is not good at memory, but at keeping it. —Jack Gilbert
• Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire. — Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1921
• May 1935: Storm sky in August. Gusts of hot wind. Black clouds. Yet in the East a delicate, transparent band of blue sky. Impossible to look at it. Its presence is a torture for the eyes and for the soul, ..._Notebooks_

california

• piedmont cemetery
• golden gate bridge (wind vortex)
• the bordello
• albany bulb
• mad tea party at the end of time
• children's fairyland

oregon

• rimsky-korsakoffee
• the good karma box
• archangel michael

texas

• white sands.

utah

• salt flats twinkling like stars

yellowstone

• colorful pools of steam