“There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that the point?”
Office Interior
One Of These Days by Fredrik Rattzen (on tumblr)
Day Jobs of the Poets
Words and Pictures by Grant Snider
This comic is factual, but it requires a couple clarifications: Wallace Stevens was an executive at an insurance company, not your average insurance salesman. And there’s no evidence that Emily Dickinson liked cats, but her sister Lavinia was cat-obsessed. So Emily must have been forced to cat-sit occasionally.
bright star, would i were stedfast as thou art - / not in lone splendour hung aloft the night / and watching, with eternal lids apart, / like nature’s patient, sleepless eremite, / the moving waters at their priestlike task / of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, / or gazing on the new soft-fallen masque / of snow upon the mountains and the moors - / no - yet still stedfast, still unchangeable / pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast, / to feel for ever its soft swell and fall, / awake for ever in a sweet unrest, / still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, / and so live ever - or else swoon in death.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
(Artwork by David Peasland)
