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Duru Gungor
Sep 7, 20222 min read
The pulse of time
With soft steps the cat, without awakening the house, finds the sun on the roof...
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Duru Gungor
Jan 29, 20221 min read
Gather around, for it's very cold
Here is how Rilke spins a tale, as if in passing, barely noticing the blast and the crater left by his handful of lines: It was already...
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Duru Gungor
Jan 6, 20221 min read
Fire and Perfume
... in the exact same way a perfume is a longing, fake fire is another.
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Duru Gungor
Dec 16, 20215 min read
The Aikido Smile
The sharp smile of the Cheshire Cat is known to hang in the air—like perfume or less pleasant alternatives—after its owner vanishes. The...
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Duru Gungor
Dec 7, 20212 min read
Liquefied
on the shore down under
weeping for time that can't be crossed
how true that dream was
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Duru Gungor
Sep 9, 20212 min read
Chronicles of a see-through summer
frothy thin things
I can't tell or hold for long
must at least be seen
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Duru Gungor
Jul 8, 20218 min read
Fast-forwarding Mr. Stevens
When the full collection is read as such, one doesn't just read the poems but also, obscurely, the man behind ...
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Duru Gungor
Jul 4, 20211 min read
This Little Home in The Dark
playful skies tonight
islands, high fives, goddesses
in the lilac veils
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Duru Gungor
Mar 27, 20211 min read
Springtime Solitude
in the solitude
of seeing, nothing that won't
laugh, that can't breathe
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Duru Gungor
Feb 24, 20211 min read
From blossoms of light
the end of the day /
new bowl with yellow daisies /
a smile in the air
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Duru Gungor
Dec 6, 20201 min read
Clearly a fairy, absurd
someone’s gotta watch,
ill-qualified though I am,
these dusks and blue dawns
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Duru Gungor
Nov 26, 20207 min read
Planes of Existence
“Relax,” they would apparently tell themselves, “You’re dead already. Dead because you were born. So, instead of fretting, just relax..."
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Duru Gungor
Nov 23, 20201 min read
Lunar States
coming this mad fall
a doomed story of courage
to resist Netflix
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Duru Gungor
Nov 8, 20202 min read
Haiku for an Uncertain Fall
Just the sound of this...
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Duru Gungor
Sep 15, 20201 min read
Conversations with Bashō: The September Edition
Very simple deal: Bashō writes a haiku, and I respond with another or two. A mini compilation to celebrate this fall and/or to succumb to...
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Duru Gungor
Jul 8, 20204 min read
The best of Nabokov's Glory
the 2012 Penguin Classics edition, translated from Russian by Dimitri Nabokov in collaboration with Nabokov himself. [It should be noted...
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Duru Gungor
Jul 5, 20202 min read
Today I met Teri Craig, Canadian artist ...
... artist, and now a young oak tree. I was devouring a cake cup of raspberries and pistachio cream, sitting on the soft grass, unseeing...
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Duru Gungor
May 7, 20207 min read
The Best of Kenkō's Essays in Idleness
(14th-century Japanese classic by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by Meredith McKinnney, Penguin Books, 2013; obviously, the "best" refers...
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Duru Gungor
Apr 22, 20201 min read
#92, Essays in Idleness
"A beginner should not hold two arrows.... You will be careless with the first, knowing you have a second."
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