Siena Canales

“Four of the roses were on fire.
They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets
and howling colossal intimacies
from the back of their fused throats.
- XXVII. MITWELT”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Absence, the highest form of presence.”
― James Joyce