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“I'd remember the way everyone
else does: later, when none of it matters,
memory as good as a mirror for changing things,
no good at all”
― The Rest of Love
else does: later, when none of it matters,
memory as good as a mirror for changing things,
no good at all”
― The Rest of Love
“A stillness like that of music resting—or sex,
after: what they call sadness, though it
is not sadness.”
― The Rest of Love
after: what they call sadness, though it
is not sadness.”
― The Rest of Love
“Like asking at first Where am I
after dream—and the room, in pieces, slow,
comes back”
― The Rest of Love
after dream—and the room, in pieces, slow,
comes back”
― The Rest of Love
“afternoons I remember still: how the light
seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living
inside it, waiting— I'd heard all about
that one clear note it gives.”
― The Rest of Love
seemed a bell; how it seemed I'd been living
inside it, waiting— I'd heard all about
that one clear note it gives.”
― The Rest of Love
“The heart—
at last nothing
but a muscle moving,
not at all the talisman you'd imagined:
how if only you could touch it—how
everything, everything might
yet be different
if you did . . .”
― The Rest of Love
at last nothing
but a muscle moving,
not at all the talisman you'd imagined:
how if only you could touch it—how
everything, everything might
yet be different
if you did . . .”
― The Rest of Love
“Here—
your shirt, he said,
after. Lifting it. Bringing it
to me as if it were
not a shirt
but a thing immaculate,
or in flames, or—
with a single sword
positioned through it—
a sacred heart.”
― The Rest of Love
your shirt, he said,
after. Lifting it. Bringing it
to me as if it were
not a shirt
but a thing immaculate,
or in flames, or—
with a single sword
positioned through it—
a sacred heart.”
― The Rest of Love
“I know, released, she won't come back.
This is different from letting what,
already, we count as lost go. It is nothing
like that. Also, it is not like wanting to learn what
losing a thing we love feels like, Oh yes:
I love her.”
― The Rest of Love
This is different from letting what,
already, we count as lost go. It is nothing
like that. Also, it is not like wanting to learn what
losing a thing we love feels like, Oh yes:
I love her.”
― The Rest of Love
“Why does it seem
I won't come back here? Why speak of it
as of, already, a place I miss?”
― The Rest of Love
I won't come back here? Why speak of it
as of, already, a place I miss?”
― The Rest of Love
“The light
extends like truth, the truth like
a hand extending at the same time as
it recedes.
What is that like?”
― The Rest of Love
extends like truth, the truth like
a hand extending at the same time as
it recedes.
What is that like?”
― The Rest of Love
“until
the image itself
has grown distorted past
all recognition save
that of memory”
― The Rest of Love
the image itself
has grown distorted past
all recognition save
that of memory”
― The Rest of Love
“Poems that sustain our contemplation, disrupt our complacencies, and leave us changed” - Carl Phillips”
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