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

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

Sunday, August 14, 2016

The things I discovered while I was looking for something else







"If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry." 

-Stephen Spender

Image: Mark Hartman
Title: Shelby Foote

Friday, July 29, 2016

I felt myself vanishing into blue




       "In water, like in books—you can leave your life."                   
       -Lidia Yuknavitch

Title: Steven Millhauser
Image: Paul Klee, Hilterfingen, 1895

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