I am the Stranger

    We are living in a foreign country.
    -Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions

Image: Edward S. Curtis, Chaiwa, a Tewa Indian girl with a butterfly whorl hairstyle, 1922

Title: quote from Edmond Jabès

There is a strong shadow where there is much light

 

   Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see

  in the dark.

   — Wallace Stevens

Image: Felix Bonfils

Title: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen

Memory insists with its sea voice

 

There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

- Toni Morrison

 

 Image: Graciela Iturbide

Title: Anne Michaels, The Weight of Oranges