Ajlin Visentin

“you
are the prettiest bouquet
of dying flowers
i
have ever seen.”
― Renaada Williams, becoming.

“The icicles wreathing
On trees in festoon
Swing, swayed to our breathing:
They’re made of the moon.”
― Elinor Wylie

“It was the hour when snow goes blue
and streetlights come on and a hare may
pause on the tree line as still as a word in a book.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“Believe me, for I know, you will find something far greater in the woods than in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you cannot learn from the masters.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux, The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux