I’ll Always Love You ~ Rebekah Anne This is the one I never get rid of; the scar I’ll still pull out when I’m 90 and we’re talking about how time heals. You promise me forever and it’ll be the truth, won’t it? Even after you’re gone.
Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight ~ Jane Hirshfield I found myself suddenly voluminous, three-dimensioned, a many-roofed building in moonlight. Thought traversed me as simply as moths might. Feelings traversed me as fish. I heard myself thinking, It isn’t the piano, it isn’t the ears. Then heard, too soon, the ordinary furnace, the usual footsteps above me. […]
(Please excuse the fact that it’s a photo of the page from her book, rather than transcribed; as much as I mucked with the HTML, the text would *not* line up correctly.) Monumental Alabaster – Lysbeth Em Benkert
[sit] ~ Vera Pavlova sit by the river keep pitching your troubles in it watch them float away with the current too light to drown
Aware ~ D. H. Lawrence Slowly the moon is rising out of the ruddy haze, Divesting herself of her golden shift, and so Emerging white and exquisite; and I in amaze See in the sky before me, a woman I did not know I loved, but there she goes, and her beauty hurts my heart; […]
