Summer 2021 | the-crob.org

Jul 1, 20211 min read

The Sky Has a Body

"The sky has a body—it blushes, coughs with smoke..."

Jun 21, 20217 min read

Hozier's Heresies

"Hozier disobeys and disrupts orthodoxy through its own language..."

May 25, 20212 min read

(box) unhinged

"found this old dress that madness of velvet overdraft..."

May 20, 20215 min read

Disposable photos: transience and analogue rituals

"with every ‘revolt against mourning’, every disposable camera flash, every giddy notes app paragraph, we keep Larkin’s prophecy true..."

May 16, 20218 min read

Eat the Pear!

"The mathematician, economist, and philosopher Ramsey wrote once that ‘what we can’t say, we can’t say, and we can’t whistle it either'..."

May 11, 20212 min read

So Long, Idalou!

"We’re driving down Cinderella Hill when your knuckles start bleeding. The wisteria is in bloom..."

May 7, 20211 min read

On Jesus Green

"the river looked like worked glass today with a solid surface two inches down so that, if you wanted, you could walk along it..."

May 4, 20210 min read

Elegy (Ash Trees)

"Just above the river, there is an ash plantation where the trees stand in a perfect grid formation and are dying..."

May 1, 20211 min read

nothing - but this

"the world falters -a graceless stutter- and dissolves..."

Apr 25, 20211 min read

the vortex man

"it’s like this: you know the guy rides his bike round the centre of cam all day all like speaker in a plastic bag..."

Apr 22, 20211 min read

Metaphors

"I suddenly remember that last year my father planted three saplings in his garden, each one standing for one of his three sons..."