A Tilted Bliss

Reading. Writing. Movies.
I like people.

When inhibitions are compromised, I dare to write a poem.

I want to write a poem, 

but I’m hungover,

maybe still kind of drunk,

and I don’t think I could articulate

my thoughts properly.

But I don’t want to forget how

beautiful a 200 foot,

patchy red cedar looks against

gray and silver cloud

through broken matchstick blinds

with wind grabbing at its branches 

- failing -

and circling back again 

like a desperate lover.

It looks like an underwater dance,

in the cold pacific ocean,

that my own words aren’t

great or grand enough

to capture.

-j.h. 

scribnerbooks: “When someone asks, ‘Which three books have meant the most to you?’ I can answer without having to think: The Great Gatsby, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye. All three have been indispensable to me (both as a reader and as a writer); yet if I were forced to select only one, I would unhesitatingly choose Gatsby. Had it not been for Fitzgerald’s novel, I would not be writing the kind of literature I am today.” - Haruki Murakami This has completely made my day. 

scribnerbooks:

“When someone asks, ‘Which three books have meant the most to you?’ I can answer without having to think: The Great Gatsby, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye. All three have been indispensable to me (both as a reader and as a writer); yet if I were forced to select only one, I would unhesitatingly choose Gatsby. Had it not been for Fitzgerald’s novel, I would not be writing the kind of literature I am today.” - Haruki Murakami

This has completely made my day. 

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”


― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country