How to Begin Again

"All the words are not enough to get anything said."

-Yannis Ritsos

Art: Agostino Arrivabene

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