on the silver summit I recognized the goddess
then, one by one, I lifted her veils.
— Rimbaud
Her image lingers beyond any single part, as that modern day minor divinity the Sex Symbol, surrendering herself on screen as you feel she would in life, tender, soft, sweet, willing, but somehow essentially melancholic, fallen from innocence, not knowing, even at the final moment of ecstasy, if she is desirable for her own self, or just for the spirit of lust she engenders, yet needing to experience, to create that desire, sucking it up like her life’s blood…
Yanny Chan
To tell the truth, it feels like we’re just waiting to die
Original Photo Credit…Anthony Kwan for The New York Times
I’m with her when the
Whole room turns sideways
Sliding through the window
And into another room
In which things are
Going in another direction
Or maybe two
Tumbling like a key
In the lock
Turning like the guts
Of a clock