December 2009
Breath / Mark Strand
When you see them tell them I am still here, that I stand on one leg while the other one dreams, that this is the only way,
that the lies I tell them are different from the lies I tell myself, that by being both here and beyond I am becoming a horizon…
“Swallowed In The Sea” You cut me down...
“…I was reminded that these small moments are the things that I will look back on...”
– Ryan Booth, Happy Birthday to Anne (The Small Things)
“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
You know, I think more and more often
You know, I think more and more often by Tadeusz Borowski You know, I think more and more often that I should go back. Maybe I’ll meet you. And happiness? Happiness is being sad together. So I look through the moonlit window and listen. Nothing. A breeze stirs somewhere. Alone among the leaves - the moon. Like a golden wheel it rolls above the windblown leaves. Such moons, only paler, shone over...
“Yes, I was infatuated with you; I am still. No one has ever heightened such a...”
– Sylvia Plath
Blue are the life giving waters taking for...
I am the passenger And I ride and I ride I ride...
“Deep reading — the kind that you engage in when you get lost in the syntax and...”
– Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy - The Endless First Chapter - NYT
“I have this very silly fear, dear friend, that one day I’ll be old, without ever...”
– Go Ask Alice
“In some ways I love everything. It’s less…less of a thing than like, less...”
– Cassie,Skins
“Talking in bed ought to be easiest,
Lying together there goes back so far,
An...”
– philip larkin, “talking in bed”
“Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History Of Love
