I am Still Alive

Art: On Kawara from the series, I Am Still Alive

My Flight

My flight is not away, not to or from.
Rome, though in the distance, is no farther
than the dresser.
-Rod McKuen, excerpt from “Rome Itself”


Photo: via Google images

I am Tormented

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Map: Martin Waldseemüller, South America, detail +

Salvation

Flung, my heart unflames.

-T. © 2011. All rights reserved

Photo: Sir Arthur Eddington, Solar Eclipse, 1919

I am Constantly Writing

"The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself."

-Robert Walser

Art: Ernst Fuchs