Mario Villalobos

A golden marigold's bloom that is a few days old The London of Review of Books, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review stacked atop each other on a desk A custom cardboard wooden box with 15 completed Leuchtturm1917 notebooks organized inside, a white label across each spine with the start and end dates of each notebook A dark fog on a dark morning taken inside a dark car A cardboard shoebox with 15 Leuchtturm1917 A5 hardcover notebooks, 13 of them finished and labeled and two brand new still in their wrapping. In the background is a Field Notes notebook and beside that is a pen case with an assortment of writing tools. A rainbow beginning at a ranch house and rising toward a dying raincloud, the mountains peeking through behind them, the signs of early fall in the foreground Cowboy on his horse whipping a lasso in the air as he chases a bull An early morning sunrise, a small structure on a green hill, the purple mountains off to the right, the sky a spectrum of pinks, reds, yellows, and purples Coffee cup with Happy Birthday and a smiley face handwritten on it Maxïmo Park singer Paul Smith singing into a microphone at a concert
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