Poem: EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OKAY
(illustration by sososimps)
EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OKAY
I’m going to write one of those novels you can’t
put down. The kind where you don’t know what’s
going to happen, and you want to know what’s
going to happen, so you sneak the book into the
bathroom to get a few pages in while your wife
thinks you’re brushing your teeth or showering,
or you take it to work and hope your workstation
walls are high enough to keep the book secret.
David Ebenbach, Stirring
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The Bird and the Cloud and the Too-Small Girl
The bird who turned white from trying to love a cloud
so hard she almost misted him into dust
How one day the bird flew to the cloud and said,
“Finally, after years of waiting,
I can’t tell if I love you because you are a cloud
or if I love you because you are made of water
Kallie Falandays, Nightblock
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Poem: ‘Not Monet’s Giverny’
In our snow globe of good-byes we leave
cities burning, arguments still on fire.
We do not touch but force ourselves
into pockets and gloves.
Winter stumbles on: questions
without answers.
Glass bridge of exits, cracked runway lights
flared blue and gold.
We travel through forlorn gates
the size of breadbaskets
do not stop for sweets or tea.
Susan Rich, Sweet Lit
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Tayor Swift Covers Vance Joy’s “Riptide”
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Flashes of Light: Beer, Coffee, and Prague
Poetrylawn takes the most gorgeous Instagram photos
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Korean Drama Review ‘The Time I’ve Loved You’
The Time I’ve Loved You is a Korean drama remake of Taiwanese drama In Time with You, and just started airing. In Time with You, though it kind of self-destructs in its home stretch, is one of my favorite dramas, thoroughly lovely and extraordinarily well-written, that rare story that often transcends its medium to tell something real and gripping about human life and love (I wrote a full review earlier today).
The Time I’ve Loved You can be viewed one of two days: as an original story by those who haven’t seen the Taiwanese drama, and as a remake/new interpretation by those who have. Either way, I can say this: both will find it an unexceptional drama. The premise itself of two 30-something best friends who fall in love is strong, but not a guarantee of success, nor unique (9 Ends 2 Outs had the same premise). What matters is how you take that story and run with it, whether or not dialogue and music, casting, visual and pacing choices add or subtract from that premise. In this case, all those variable choices mostly subtract from it. Editing choices are odd – the drama uses an odd kaleidoscope effect to shift abruptly from past to present and back again – and the pacing is slower than in the first drama.
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Twdrama In Time with You Review
Taiwanese drama In Time with You is one of my favorite dramas of all time – I watched it in a glorious summer haze two months ago when I was in the middle of a mild depression, and watching this in between and around bouts of baking and cooking was therapeutic. It’s a story of best friends falling in love, and a rare story in that it’s both slice-of-life with a close attention to the daily details of how people live, and also fast-paced and incredibly romantic. Chen You Qing (Ariel Lin) is a highly driven and capable retail manager of a high-end shoe company. She’s been with the company for years and handles her taxing job with mostly calm aplomb, committing long hours to it with a smile. Lin Da Ren (Bolin Chen) is her long-time best friend, the kind whom she casually picks up the phone and calls any hour of the day and who drops by her house for her mother’s cooking. Da Ren is a manager at an international airline, equally successful in his own right.
Coffee and Irony 