This is how, in rain, life continues

The sky today is brighter than for days,
but even so, the rain continues.
I pluck open a taxi’s waiting door
and join the others, streaming forward.
The hanging mist, worthy of Velazquez,
paints a somber absence on the air.

July Miscellany, with music by Jaeger, Mattingly & Trapani & performances by Dhegrae & Contemporaneous

That’s Robert Louis Stevenson contemplating the proceedings, courtesy John Singer Sargent. The proceedings include, among other things, El café by Joaquín Torres-García and the Cabinet of Geology and Mineralogy from the announcement of a project by Mark Dion at Vassar College.