Tag: Amsterdam

“Dead people never stop talking.”

“Dead people never stop talking and sometimes the living hear.”

Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

Morin Guerrier.

“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

“works of art have an ontology distinct if not wholly divided from other kinds of things in the world” (AN)

I like to find   

what’s not found   

at once, but lies

within something of another nature,   

in repose, distinct. 

Denise Levertov, Pleasures.