The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest

Photo:  Jane Evelyn Atwood, Blind Twins

The Unsaid

I used to put words here
(1,095 days worth);
I still do, only now
they are rarely mine.

Image: Michaël Borremans, Various ways of avoiding visual contact with the outside world using yellow isolating tape, 1998

Immediately Far

 The journey is so immediately far.

-Tu Fu

Image: Masao Yamamoto

Fields Engraved in the Soul

"Each one of us, then, should speak of his roads, his crossroads, his roadside benches; each one of us should make a surveyor’s map of his lost fields and meadows. Thoreau said that he had a map of his fields engraved in his soul. And Jean Wahl once wrote …The frothing of the hedges / I keep deep inside me… Thus we cover the universe with drawings we have lived."

—Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Image:  Sam Winston

Calvino on Classics

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
— Italo Calvino

Image: Alejandra Laviada, Before the Fall