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taiwanese grass jelly herb (3.1/5) (cooling, bitter mint sensation that feels light but has an intense climate. apparently, when steeped with agar agar or gelatin, it can thicken into a jelly. however, i would prefer to drink the herb as is.) "And surely you have seen, in the darkness of the most innermost rooms of these huge buildings, to which sunlight never penetrates, how the gold lead of a sliding door or screen will pick up a distant glimmer from the garden, then suddenly send forth an ethereal glow, a faint golden light cast into the enveloping darkness. How in such a dark place, gold draws so much light to itself is a mystery to me. Modern man, in his well-lit house, knows nothing of the beauty of gold, but those who lived in the dark houses of the past were not merely captivated by its beauty, they also knew its practical value, for gold in these dim rooms, must have served the function of a reflector. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty." Tanizaki'...
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Four Needle Technique

Sewing recovers memory. Once,

my mother hurled a thread across the room 

but instead of tangling, it crossed a threshold and fled 

from the house and like a cat I chased it. 

In the wake of my sprint, I sensed my halting stomach

and a nation halving so I used her sewing kit to

kiss a needle by burning the tip to tie my thumb

with a string and constrict bloodflow to prick 

the little sliver of flesh  on the corner of the thumb and press 

to let the blood out to relieve

an oxymoron for the 38th parallel, to relieve

a meal that seems to last forever, to relieve

this thread I hid away in a shoebox that furled under my skin.

For years, it sliced through my wrists and for years,

it raveled and unraveled.


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