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Indigo
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X I have a talent for twisting my tongue into silence as tight as a fist (like a cherry stem)
“There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail”
― The Awful Rowing Toward God
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail”
― The Awful Rowing Toward God
“I want to utter you. I want to portray you
not with lapis or gold, but with colors made of apple bark.
There is no image I could invent
that your presence would not eclipse.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
not with lapis or gold, but with colors made of apple bark.
There is no image I could invent
that your presence would not eclipse.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“We are part mineral beings too — our teeth are reefs, our bones are stones — and there is a geology of the body as well as of the land. It is mineralization — the ability to convert calcium into bone — that allows us to walk upright, to be vertebrate, to fashion the skulls that shield our brains.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
“I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“We all carry trace fossils within us – the marks that the dead and the missed leave behind. Handwriting on an envelope; the wear on a wooden step left by footfall; the memory of a familiar gesture by someone gone, repeated so often it has worn its own groove in both air and mind: these are trace fossils too. Sometimes, in fact, all that is left behind by loss is trace – and sometimes empty volume can be easier to hold in the heart than presence itself.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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