Heather

“always fugitive, always near
always concealed, always disdainful
always leaving, always untouched
always in black, always dreaming
always the bitter flower
always the night, always concealed
always fugitive, always caged
always your face
always the bitter flower
of your lips, always your bed
always near, always fleeing
always waiting, always waiting
always calling to you
always the night deepens
always the night
always fugitive, always near”
― Antonio Machado

“Why does the sea hold what it loves most below?

- Together and by Ourselves”
― Alex Dimitrov

“Like you, like stars, I am retreating year by year, and these rooms seem enough: midnight to north and south, and the mirror I study from this bed filled, in its upper reaches, with silvered light, vacant.

bright Absentee

Like a fontanel, Emily, like a door, my face, yours, closing.

- Late Conversation”
― Mark Doty, Turtle, Swan and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight: TWO VOLUMES OF POETRY

“I am something supernatural
not exactly god, ghost, spirit, angel, principle or element –
There is no term for it in English.”
― Anne Carson, The Bacchae