These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot

Monday, August 12, 2013

The silence of untranslated stars
























     …you can look at something, close your eyes, and see it again and still know nothing – like staring at the sky to figure out the distances between stars.
     -Ann Beattie, Jacklighting
     Image:  Laure Albin-Guillot, Planche XVI Diatomée, 1931
               Title: e.e. cummings, adapted from "Summer Silence"