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

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

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Accepting that blur






















so knowing,
what is known?
that we carry our baggage
in our cupped hands
when we burst through
the waters of our mother.
that some are born
and some are brought
to the glory of this world.
that it is more difficult
than faith
to serve only one calling
one commitment
one devotion
in one life.

-Lucille Clifton, “Far Memory”

Image: Giovanni Boccaccio
Title: Ruth Stone

Monday, September 10, 2018

Under the tall sky of hope



















the weight of this stone is longing
the curve of that tree is longing
and longing makes the lightest breeze
sigh in the tall dead bracken

-Thomas A. Clark, from “At Dusk & At Dawn”, The Path to the Sea

Image: Sibley Colliery, Pennsylvania, 1886
Title: Marin Sorescu

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