A higher or less somber shore

    We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

-Tom Stoppard

Image: Uta Barth

Title: Yves Bonnefoy, The House Where I Was Born (trans. by John T. Naughton)

I am Not Resigned

I saw, the sea was boundless, I saw no shore.

—Inscription on a Carthaginian funerary urn

Image: Eduard Bezembinder

Title: Nod to Edna St. Vincent Millay, excerpt from “Dirge Without Music”