Andrei Vylinski

“The Poem"

It was like getting a love letter from a tree

Eyes closed forever to find you–

There is a life which
if I could have it
I would have chosen for myself from the beginning”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems

“Well, there you are: a hobbit amongst the Urukhai. Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. You are inside a very great story!

Letter 66
From a letter to Christopher Tolkien”
― Humphrey Carpenter, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
― David Hume

“Michiko Nogami (1946—1982)”

Is she more apparent because she is not
anymore forever? Is her whiteness more white
because she was the color of pale honey?
A smokestack making the sky more visible.
A dead woman filling the whole world. Michiko
said, “The roses you gave me kept me awake
with the sound of their petals falling.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires