10's, Week 8

10 "Verbal Photographs":

• A grey-haired man in black robe behind a desk, centered between the American flag and Michigan's state flag, speaking to a man miles away via the 40" LCD television mounted on the wall.
  
• A blue sign overhead that reads, "Aisle 9: Breakfast Foods, Candy, Healthy Living."
  
• A closet rack tangled with hangers and shirts, with neat stacks of folded clothes above on the shelf.
  
• A gray unshapely stain on the concrete, the wet shadow of ice once there.
  
• The brown and gold couch pillows scattered all over the living room carpet, like stepping stones.
  
• A white ceramic bowl sprinkled in ashes and crumpled up cigarette butts like a battlefield.
  
• Burgundy water, white with foam, running down the bathtub drain as she rinses her hair under the running water.
  
• Seven brown boxes stacked crookedly on top of one another and banished to the corner of the room.
  
• A red plastic box that reads "City of Ypsilanti," overflowing with empty cardboard food boxes and plastic milk jugs.
  
• The green number ":23" glowing on the microwave where the time should be.
  

10 "Treasures":

• "Someone will remember us I say even in another time." --Sappho, from If Not, Winter by Anne Carson (147)
  
• "As long as you want." --Sappho, from If Not, Winter by Anne Carson (45)
  
• "And on the eyes of black sleep of night." --Sappho, from If Not, Winter by Anne Carson (151)
  
• "With what eyes?" --Sappho, from If Not, Winter by Anne Carson (162)
  
• "Whiter by far than an egg." --Sappho, from If Not, Winter by Anne Carson (167)
  
• "Spangled is the earth with her crowns." --Sappho, from If Not, Winter by Anne Carson (168C)
  
• "People dull their wits with gibberish, and cannot use their ears and eyes." --Heraclitus, Fragments (4)
  
• "From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony." --Heraclitus, Fragments (46)
  
• "The way up is the way back." --Heraclitus, Fragments (69)
  
• "Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within." --Heraclitus, Fragments (80)