I Take The Soil In
I take the soil in
my clean fingers and to say
I weep is untrue, weep is too
musical a word. I heave
into the soil. You cannot die.
I just came to this life
again, alive in my silent way.
- Ada Limón, Invasive
More Posts from Moonmovement and Others
I am a song about the great pain of joy.
Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol
I have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real.
- Robert Desnos
burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Nervous awe and apprehension are born out of proximity and attention. The greater the intimacy between these cultures and nature, the greater the tension. The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.
Mary Ruefle, On Fear
of loveliness in the snow and faithlessness in the flood;
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
The light is nervous and quiet -
Urszula M. Benka, To the Last Man on Earth, In the Hour of His Death tr. Regina Grol
tragedy is thinking in action, thinking upon action, for the sake of action
- Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
those eyes which looked as if they had been fished from the bottom of the sea
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
green leaves / torn straight from the cross
- Agata Tuszyńska, Faith tr. Regina Grol
we have / bartered away heaven, / in starry nights, in the apple / orchards of Paradise.
- Marina Tsvetaeva, We shall not escape Hell tr. Elaine Feinstein
