“First word, last word,
they sound both civilized and wild,
part human and part bowerbird,
the parts as yet unreconciled.
You keep awake as daylight fails
beside a crib or bed with rails—
first as parent, then as child—
and listen for a sign of death,
each breath in slow pursuit of breath.
Devin Johnston, a poem
Tag: Amsterdam
AG2023_1067289a or if you make them so
“Limitations are style if you make them so.”
“Because true collaborators in this life are rare.”
(Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow)
AG2023_1066785a or kinds of things
“works of art have an ontology distinct if not wholly divided from other kinds of things in the world” (AN)
AG2023_1066771a or in repose, distinct
I like to find
what’s not found
at once, but lies
within something of another nature,
in repose, distinct.
Denise Levertov, Pleasures.