There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Image: Graciela Iturbide
Title: Anne Michaels, The Weight of Oranges
Terresa Wellborn
"Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by."
-St. Augustine, from Confessions
Image: Georgia O’Keeffe, Road - Mesa with Mist, 1961
Title: adapted from Herman Melville, Pierre
For a while I climbed the ladder,
not realizing I’d placed it
against the wrong house. The window
I tried to look into was a mirror.
I fell backward into the world.
-Stephen Dunn
Image: Lukas Schnitzer, Vöstung Sadtwar, Hungary 1665
Title: adapted from Richard Garcia, “Ladders”