November 2011
October 2011
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I will set with the sun
For I am a part of it
The fine bridge between fire-origin
Starlight burning and
The soft hum of a world at work
To start with the audible respiration
Of humanity down to that of plant
Eclipse and twilight I dim
And with night I die
Some fall in places while other reflect
Refract and redeem many with light
Some holy while others harm
All to burn so brightly in the midst of...
“I would make my way,
where the lord of dark water
lets no sailor...”
– Euripides, Hippolytos, translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons (via proustitute)
“Should we wake to the regret at the end of time
doing what people have always...”
– Patricia Young, from “Ruin and Beauty” (via the-final-sentence)
“Trees of life. When is your winter. Human
beings don’t cohere. Are not prompted...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “The Fourth Elegy” in Duino Elegies, trans. Geoff Ward (thanks wood s lot) (via proustitute)
“Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground.”
– Euripides, Alkestis, translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons (via proustitute)
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You forget you are animal
More beast than flower
Yet all there is, is delicacy unwinding
Petals falling down into barren ground
How does one grow lilies on death
From death itself arises us a beautiful tragedy
And pushed further beyond
Past layers of caked desolation
Comes bright eyes glowing
Wandering the path as do predators
A haunted breathing of fauna pressured
Though not unlike coal to...
