yesterday i was floating on my back in a swimming pool looking up at palm trees and a blue sky. today i am on my back (not floating) looking up at my ceiling // there is a crack by the door // it is cold, it is raining.

today a twenty dollar bill flew into my hands at fourteenth and seventh, but a homeless man saw it happen, and so i had to give it to him. (and now i am eating colcannon for dinner.)

"in finnish folklore, all places and things, and also human beings, have a haltija (a genie, guardian spirit) of their own. one such haltija is called etiäinen — an image, doppelgänger or just an impression that goes ahead of a person, doing things the person in question later does. for example, people waiting at home might hear the door close or even see a shadow or a silhouette, only to realize that no one has yet arrived. etiäinen can also refer to some kind of a feeling that something is going to happen. sometimes it could, for example, warn of a bad year coming."

"why should they have come here unless they had been forced to, such scholars say."