transfixion

Paradox lies at the heart of Gregg’s work, which traces the intimacy of apartness, the otherwise-imperceptible movements of even the most perfect stillness; her poems are like atomic nuclei—precisely calibrated, powerfully charged instances of transfixion from which worlds are built.

And I think this transfixion that happens with this Greyhound, who I think I met once, you know, and then stands there transfixed, there’s a beauty in that—that there’s, you know, everything seems tied.

Those, when they came, drubbing at the air and peppered by the amazed cries of the others, brought her blinking out of her transfixion, and when she saw what revealed itself, rising up in the air in front of the garden, her shock was like a blow.

“N++” is a testament to that transfixion.

Jackson is currently restoring a Ferrari Daytona with his 13-year-old son; he is hoping to break the boy’s transfixion with video games.