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

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

Friday, September 7, 2018

Say what you see in the dark























There were once words here,
now they are lost.
 

Fear, that ghost.
 

-Terresa Wellborn

And this:

"Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark."


-Wallace Stevens

Image: Katia Chausheva

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Caterpillar edging to moth






















I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life – that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive, and hungry.  I could call it a longing for home and not be far wrong.  Or I could call it a longing for whatever supersedes, if it cannot pass through, understanding…In my outward appearance and life habits I hardly change … But at the center: I am shaking; I am flashing like tinsel.
— Mary Oliver, Long Life

Image: Chad Wys
Title: Barbara Guest, excerpt from “Passage"

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Bewilderment




"I want the muddled middle to be filled with the gristle of the living.





-Dorianne Laux +

Image: Bill Brandt, Jean Dubuffet, 1960