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

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

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Unfathomable Cities




The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
that I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can’t reach.
With my sense, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
and in the ponds broken off from the sky
my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes.

-Rilke

Image: Irene Suchocki

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Words Hazard All



              I’ve never thought of counting words. I’d rather not

              know.
-Iris Murdoch

      Title: Ronald Johnson

Friday, December 18, 2015

Not Waving but Drowning






















Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

Image: Arthur Siegel, Study of Negative/Positive Profiles, c.1937
Title: Stevie Smith