bookofjoe

'Girl With a Pearl Earring' x BIC Pen

Artist James Mylne recreated Vermeer's iconic painting with one BIC Cristal pen.

From YouTube: "The reproduction... took the artist approximately 90 hours to complete."

Bic Cristal pen: 10 for $3.29.

The Poem That Can't Be Written — Lawrence Raab

 

is different from the poem
that is not written, or the many

that are never finished—those boats
lost in the fog, adrift

in the windless latitudes,
the charts useless, the water gone.

In the poem that cannot
be written there is no danger,

no ponderous cargo of meaning,
no meaning at all. And this

is its splendor, this is how
it becomes an emblem,

not of failure or loss,
but of the impossible.

So the wind rises. The tattered sails
billow, and the air grows sweeter.

A green island appears.
Everyone is saved.

Zippo Hand Warmer

Even if you never use it as a hand warmer, it makes a stylish paperweight.

From websites:

Built for winter warriors, it features a high polish chrome finish, sleek and compact design, and fits easily into pockets, gloves, and pants without the bulk of other warmers.

The Zippo Hand Warmer uses Zippo premium lighter fluid to produce more than ten times the heat of traditional models and lasts for up to 24 hours.

High-Polish Chrome (pictured); Black; Black Harley-Davidson; Orange; Camo.

From $16.26.