V.

I do not
regret
that
I am
imperfect.

In each crack
there is
an orchid
growing

& chocolate
serves
me
when

I
slip
from
grace.

I do not
relish
perfection
or sainthood.

Flying
through
this
existence
as
myself
I honor
all
the
fierce
edges
I have
made
for
myself
&
the conundrums
I have
made
for
you.
- Alice ( Read more... )

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
ici, j'essaye de vivre ou plutôt j'essaye d'apprendre à vivre à la mort que je porte en moi. (*)

- Jean Cocteau to André Gide (after the death of Raymond Radiguet), 1924

How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean ( Read more... )

“Write, write yourself alive”
- Jacques Roubaud (Ecris, ecris toi vivante; from Dans cet arbre, tr. Rosemarie Waldrop)

New developments, heavy weights. Moving through.

Weights are just weights.

-
Never bear more than one kind
of trouble at a time.
Some people bear three -

all they have had,
all they have now,
and all they expect to have.

- Edward Everett Hale

It is always hard like this, not having a world,
to imagine one, to go to the far edge
apart and imagine, to wall whether in
or out, to build a kind of cage for the sake
of feeling the bars around us, to give shape to a world.
And oh, it is always a world and not the world.

- William Bronk (from At Tikal)

How shall I fitly meet Thee,
And give Thee welcome due?
The nations long to greet Thee,
And I would greet Thee too.

O Fount of light, shine brightly
Upon my darken'd heart;
That I may serve Thee rightly,
And know Thee as Thou art.

*

"The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten."

Yes. For me, yes. May it not be so.

I cut myself off from indolence, suddenly, and go to bed. It takes just minutes in the dark to realise what I've been doing wrong ( Read more... )

I lean outside, toward the warm, dry scent of burning that drifts once in a while through the late spring and summer - into the mild air which unexpectedly blooms with other textures. The wax, brass and polish of the Oratory candles. Church incense. Wood and stone ( Read more... )