Status Updates From The Waves

'"Pools lie on the other side of the world reflecting marble columns. The swallow dips her wing in dark pools."'

'"Let me then create you. (You have done as much for me.)"'

'"(the rhythm is the main thing in writing)"'

'"Especially now, when I have left a room, and people talking, and the stone flags ring out with my solitary footsteps, and I behold the moon rising, sublimely, indifferently, over the ancient chapel – then it becomes clear that I am not one and simple, but complex and many."'

'"I will knock. I will enter."'

'"We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory."'

“Only, when I have lain alone on the hard ground, watching you play your game, I begin to feel the wish to be singled out; to be summoned, to be called away by one person who comes to find me … but comes to where I sit on my gilt chair, with my frock billowing round me like a flower. And withdrawing into an alcove, sitting alone on a balcony we talk together.”