Massimo Bertolin’s Reviews > On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous > Status Update

It's in these moments next to you, that I envy words for doing what we can never do – how they can tell all of themselves simply by standing still, simply by being. Imagine I could lie down beside you and my whole body, every cell, radiates a clear, singular meaning, not so much a writer as a word pressed down beside you.

I hate and love your battered hands for what they can never be.