February 2012
11 posts
You Who Never Arrived
You who never arrived in my arms, beloved, who were lost from the start, I don’t even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me — the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and unsuspected turns in the path, and those powerful lands that were once ...
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“For a single moment, as fissures crackled along the body, I held something both...”
– Tolle! Lege! - Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City
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PostSecret: New Secrets Every Sunday →
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. PostSecret, 13345 Copper Ridge Road, Germantown, MD 20874, USA
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A Summer Rainstorm
Sometimes I am happy to be
here in this bright room
drifting through music made by others
looking down on the heads of the people passing
teaching each other that life is forgoing
I think everyone I can see is partially sad
because we will never be fully forgiven
this apartment building has seen so much moving through the city
well ordered troops
many proud careful mothers and fathers...
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I Believe in the Night
Darkness of night, out of which I came,
I love you more than the flame
that circumscribes the world
by lending gleam,
who knows, to an orbit’s circle,
beyond whose bounds we come up against the unknown.
Darkness confines all things embraced tight,
figures, flames, animals, me,
pulled into her sphere:
powers, people.
And as the senses flare it could be
that sheer force stirs near.
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“If loving me is work, I’m not a job to take.”
– The Money Tree - Blue October 