“However, we were of no ouse to each other: my sole currency in their language, the term espresso, was already spent; I'd used it twice.”
― Watermark
― Watermark
“And if poetry is a bond between
Two hearts, it is a bond too frail:
That night words failed, I, too, was lost—
To whiskey, memory, a photograph.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
Two hearts, it is a bond too frail:
That night words failed, I, too, was lost—
To whiskey, memory, a photograph.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“I can't let them go, those days of summer gone.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“Say this life and let it be enough, for once.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
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