Now
Everything kept
14 kept
Meditations✦
Marcus Aurelius
Read at 2:00 AM, pencil in hand.
Kind of Blue✦
Miles Davis
The record for empty roads.
In the Mood for Love✦
Wong Kar-wai
Every frame a held breath.
The shore, before
Nabil Kanaan
Taken at 4:40 AM.
The Prophet✦
Kahlil Gibran
My grandfather's copy, his margins.
On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter
Four minutes I return to.
Nighthawks
Edward Hopper
Everyone awake, no one together.
Stoner✦
John Williams
A quiet life, taken seriously.
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
The colour of leaving.
Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky
Memory as weather.
No. 61 (Rust and Blue)✦
Mark Rothko
Stand close. Wait.
Gymnopédies
Erik Satie
Played in the house growing up.
[A photograph]
[Photographer]
[Your note on the photograph.]
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
What we don't say, and keep.
Nothing has stayed here yet.
Not numbered · every work credited to its maker · ✦ Essential
5:00 AM — Dawn
Written under the crimson sky.