Isaac Starnes

“When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.”
― Mark Strand, Selected Poems

“Because the light is always with us
and the hush of an early morning

time propitious to plain speech

space between the premonition
and the event

the small lovely realm
of the possible.”
― Charles Simic

“We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.”
― Mark Strand

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
― Charles Simic