#estanislao lopez

[nofatclips]

El día de las flores by Fin del mundo featuring Eterna Inocencia

[sicknessinmotion]

you are the grief i remember you as

fortesa latifi // fleabag // j. estanislao lopez // @promqueendyke // okechukwu nzelu // glennon doyle melton.

[soracities]

"Can I tell you that, sometimes, I utter the word justice and mean revenge? On my best nights, I mean mercy, but my best is my rarest form."

J. Estanislao Lopez, from "My Uncle's Killer"

[llovelymoonn]

j. estanislao lopez intelligent design \\ sheila heti pure colour

buy me a coffee

[lunchboxpoems]

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

An engineer in Wisconsin claims to have improved grief's design. Aerodynamic, he says, showing off his sketches, barely grief at all! Applying physics like salve to a wound, he remembers what Torricelli said about vacuums, what Carnot said about absolute terror. He grabs a pencil and revises one more time. There's money to be made in this, his father would assure, chopping chicken-necks through the afternoon. Flightless birds! The engineer pores over schematics, grimaces at draft after draft. His last sketch: confused. Joints unlabeled. A room inside a room inside a room.

J. ESTANISLAO LOPEZ 

[therambleandrumble]

Reasons to Despise Being Literary

J. Estanislao Lopez

You know exactly the caliber of human being

you’re not. The birds are old news in the ongoing

docket of the beautiful. You jot inconsequential notes:

The Spanish morir (to die) recalls the English, more.

A slant rhyme: serenaded to; serrated tooth.

You know that, as Keats died, he did so in the throngs

of unrelenting failure. Your apologies are too well crafted,

and so read as insincere. You insist the world sloshes around

like fluid in the skull, but the only person listening

already agrees. When two mirrors face each other,

the image bounces at light speed, shrinks into pure calculation.

Amazing!—but outside your expertise. There’s a taste

of ruin in the air you’re convinced has waited centuries

for an articulation only you could orchestrate.

You continue to believe this into the last decade of your life.

Like a machinist who has come to terms with his outdatedness,

you recline staring upwards. Only the naïve call it the firmament.

All you can offer anyone suffering in the world is a sentence,

which is more often than not not enough.

[collardqueen]

j. estanislao lopez, alternate ending: the escape of jephthah's daughter, from we borrowed gentleness.

[noleavestoblow]

"Yesterday, I buried another squirrel. Every morning, he’d gnaw on my plastic lawn chairs, shavings accumulating across his tiny organs. Is his death political? Everything is. Different, though, those two politics, dying for and dying of."

―J. Estanislao Lopez

[spookyabuki]

This century is younger than me.

It dresses itself

in an overlong coat of Enlightenment thinking

despite the disappearing winter.

It twirls the light-up fidget spinner

won from the carnival of oil economies.

In this century, chatbots write poems

where starlings wander from their murmuration

into the denim-thick clouds of a storm.

When the chatbots inevitably learn

to kill their darlings,

we’ll ask if we are their darlings,

we’ll dive further inward if not or if so.

In films, the intelligent computer always arrives

at a misunderstanding of the human soul

because it lacks our ability

to lie to ourselves.

To feign hope and love through disillusion.

—J. Estanislao Lopez, “Poem With Human Intelligence,” from Poetry September 2023

[april-is]

April 28, 2024: The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons, A.E. Stallings

The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons A.E. Stallings I hate you, How the children plead At first sight—

I want, I need, I hate how nearly Always I

At first say no, And then comply. (Soon, soon

They will grow bored Clutching your Umbilical cord)—

Over the moon, Lighter-than-air, Should you come home,

They’d cease to care— Who tugs you through The front door

On a leash, won’t want you Anymore And will forget you

On the ceiling— Admittedly, A giddy feeling—

Later to find you, Puckered, small, Crouching low

Against the wall. O thin-of-skin And fit to burst,

You break for her Who wants you worst. Your forebear was

The sack of the winds, The boon that gives And then rescinds,

Containing nothing But the force That blows everyone

Off course. Once possessed, Your one chore done,

You float like happiness To the sun, Untethered afternoon,

Unkind, Marooning all You’ve left behind:

Their tinfoil tears, Their plastic cries, Their wheedling

And moot goodbyes, You shrug them off— You do not heed—

O loose bloom                With no root                                  No seed.

--

More A.E. Stallings: + Consolation for Tamar + Homeric Hymn, A.E. Stallings

Today in:

2023: To Be Alive, Gregory Orr 2022: A Metaphor, J. Estanislao Lopez 2021: Ode to the Unbroken World, Which Is Coming, Thomas Lux 2020: What Kind of Times Are These, Adrienne Rich 2019: Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2, Tiana Clark 2018: Love Poem, Denise Levertov 2017: Young Wife’s Lament, Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2016: For the Confederate Dead, Kevin Young 2015: Awaking in New York, Maya Angelou 2014: when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story, Gwendolyn Brooks 2013: Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, Hayden Carruth 2012: My Place, Franz Wright 2011: from The Wild Geese, Wendell Berry 2010: Love After Love, Derek Walcott 2009: To This May, W.S. Merwin 2008: Father, Ted Kooser 2007: from Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight, Galway Kinnell 2006: Crusoe in England, Elizabeth Bishop 2005: Dream Song 1, John Berryman

Quick poll on the future of these posts, if you have a moment. <3

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

”Our hands contain our humanness. Sometimes they give us away. They clasp a chair while we pretend not to be scared. They sweat from the palms while we beg our foreheads to stay dry. They also hold. They pray. They dance along the keys of a piano. They tickle. They dust themselves in flour. They shape bread. They scratch the back of a lover. We hide so much in this life, but I don’t know if it is possible to hide the way a hand can open and close itself out of care or loss or love.” Devin Kelly Ordinary Plots: J. Estanislao Lopez's "What the Fingers Do"

[spiritunwilling]

Places with Terrible Wi-Fi - J. Estanislao Lopez | Conscientious Objector - Edna St. Vincent Millay

[shanubydoo]

“Places With Terrible Wi-Fi”

by J. Estanislao Lopez

The Garden of Eden. My ancestors’ graves. A watermelon field in Central Texas where my father once slept. Miles of rivers. The waiting room of a hospital in which a doctor, thin-looking in his coat, shared mixed results. A den of worms beneath the frozen grass. Jesus’s tomb. The stretches of highway on the long drive home after burial. The figurative abyss. The literal heavens. The cheap motel room in which I thought about praying despite my disbelief. What I thought was a voice was simply a recording playing from another room. The cluttered attic. Most of the past. The very distant future, where man is just another stratum in the ground. The tell of Megiddo. The flooded house and the scorched one. My favorite cemetery, where I can touch the white noise distorting memory. What is static if not the sound of the universe’s grief? Anywhere static reigns.

[soracities]

J. Estanislao Lopez, "A Metaphor", We Borrowed Gentleness

[i-know-how-my-story-ends]

"Yesterday, I buried another squirrel.

Every morning, he’d gnaw on my plastic lawn chairs,

shavings accumulating across his tiny organs.

Is his death political? Everything is.

Different, though, those two politics, dying for and dying of."

- The Systemic, J. Estanislao Lopez

[cada-atletismo]

ALOJAMIENTOS PARA ARGENTINOS EN EL SEMANA DEL MAR

La organización del GPS "Semana del Mar" dío a conocer los alojamientos para los atletas argentinos en Mar del Plata de acuerdo al siguiente detalle: ALOJAMIENTOS ARGENTINOS  HOTEL VANNES- CORRIENTES 1842 ENTRADA SALIDA CONSULTAS LUCIA 54-223-4215279 DOBLE 1 Romina Gonzalez F 30-sep 2-oct 2 Valeria Chiaraviglio F 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 3 Martina Adamo 40144900 30-sep 2-oct 4 Ailen Armada 41212544 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 5 Clara Macarena Baiocchi 42051329 30-sep 2-oct 6 Helen Bernard Stilling 46876607 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 7 Magali Dadario 43867941 30-sep 2-oct 8 Paula Agustina Dulcic 36687674 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 9 Belén Fritzsche 40783602 30-sep 2-oct 10 Leila Garetto 42271519 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 11 Fabiana Salomé Gramajo 34759516 30-sep 2-oct 12 Paulina Knees 38201348 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 13 Marlene Koss 44642094 30-sep 2-oct 14 María Florencia Lamboglia 36702299 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 15 Carolina Lozano 39248563 30-sep 2-oct 16 Leslie Lucero 39993698 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 17 Noelia Anahí Martinez 39447761 30-sep 2-oct 18 Valentina Napolitano 45627739 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 19 Agustina Daniela Peralta 41705026 30-sep 2-oct 20 María Candela Ratibel 46029629 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 21 Tiziana Rimedio Bila 47646955 30-sep 2-oct 22 Leticia Madgalena Rodriguez 33434323 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 23 Maria Jose Rosales Paez 45886691 30-sep 2-oct 24 Melanie Soledad Rosalez 40513379 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 25 Carolina Scarponi 46585587 30-sep 2-oct 26 Andrea Ubiedo 35827847 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 27 camila zita 45235741 30-sep 2-oct 28 Victoria Zanolli 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 29 Maria de la Paz Schoeder 30-sep 2-oct 30 Paola Abrego 34816406 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 31 Analia Altamirano 21880423 30-sep 2-oct 32 Daniela Gomez 37380930 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 33 Benjamín Santiago Aguilera 46345112 30-sep 2-oct 34 Walter Imanol Alfonzo 45776342 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 35 Juan manuel Arrieguez vivarelli 44393790 30-sep 2-oct 36 Tomas Luca Ballarini 44160490 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 37 Emiliano Gastón Benitez 44013112 30-sep 2-oct 38 Juan Ignacio Carballo 38160608 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 39 Leandro Ismael París Jiménez 38911090 29-sep 2-oct 40 Bruno De genaro 45382071 29-sep 2-oct DOBLE 41 Agustín Da Silva 40926211 30-sep 2-oct 42 Agustin Contreras 39759721 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 43 Gonzalo Agustin Delgado Mons 39991251 30-sep 2-oct 44 Bautista Diamante 44727032 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 45 Juan Ignacio Dutari 41158078 30-sep 2-oct 46 Alfonso Echezarreta 43324598 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 47 Pedro Mateo Emmert 44023729 30-sep 2-oct 48 Ayrton patricio Franco 45653739 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 49 Ignacio Joaquin Fushimi 42517213 30-sep 2-oct 50 MIGUEL ANGEL GARRO 38763195 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 51 Joaquin Gabriel Gómez 38949225 30-sep 2-oct 52 Nazareno Sasia 43114702 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 53 Carlos Augusto Johnson 40268926 30-sep 2-oct 54 Marcelo Eugenio Labonia 42433478 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 55 Elian Larregina 42492270 30-sep 2-oct 56 Carlos Layoy 35117098 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 57 Daniel Rodrigo Londero 41078107 30-sep 2-oct 58 Brian Agustin Lopez 40053148 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 59 Nazareno  Heber Melgarejo 44635911 30-sep 2-oct 60 Estanislao Mendivil 43043003 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 61 Tomas Mondino 46647556 30-sep 2-oct 62 Damian Gabriel Moretta 42781189 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 63 Félix Oruezabala 46098405 30-sep 2-oct 64 Máximo Peratz 45319522 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 65 Juan Ignacio Ciampitti 42344840 30-sep 2-oct 66 Agustín Nahuel Pinti 43543591 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 67 Jose Lorenzo Riba 46660535 30-sep 2-oct 68 Uriel Muñoz 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 69 MANUEL FEDERICO ROBLES 46024608 30-sep 2-oct 70 Pedro Rodriguez Merlo 43800853 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 71 Guillermo Ruggeri 36653706 30-sep 2-oct 72 Ezequiel Sferra Cejas 45570990 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 73 Sebastián ariel Tommasi 44439955 30-sep 2-oct 74 Santiago Madroñal 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 75 Tomas Ariel Villegas 45562955 30-sep 2-oct 76 Lucas Villegas 45562956 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 77 Alan Espinosa 36651933 30-sep 2-oct 78 Fernando Korniejczuk 31021265 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 79 Javier Morillas 18389712 30-sep 2-oct 80 Fernando Diaz Sanchez 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 81 Ariel Tejera 30-sep 2-oct 82 Sergio Alfonsini 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 83 Hugo Gomez 17795144 30-sep 2-oct 84 Pedro Nadal 38371558 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 85 Alberto Fernandez 30-sep 2-oct 86 Mario Quiroga 20135712 30-sep 2-oct SINGLE 87 Daniel Gomez 30-sep 2-oct 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 88 Jose Zabala 30-sep 2-oct 89 Julian Molina 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 90 Matias Leonez 30-sep 2-oct 91 Emanuel Valdez 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 92 Peralta Agustina 30-sep 2-oct 93 Rodriguez Leticia 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 94 CHOFERES MICRO LARGA DISTANCIA 30-sep 2-oct 95 CHOFERES MICRO LARGA DISTANCIA 30-sep 2-oct DOBLE 96 CHOFERES MICRO LARGA DISTANCIA 30-sep 2-oct 97 CHOFERES MICRO LARGA DISTANCIA 30-sep 2-oct Read the full article