“Which of the horses we passed yesterday whinnied all night in my dreams? I want that one.” — WILLIAM STAFFORD
lunchboxpoems : > KAREN BRODINE, Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking. 1990.
“Which of the horses we passed yesterday whinnied all night in my dreams? I want that one.” — WILLIAM STAFFORD
I go down to the edge of the sea. How everything shines in the morning light! The cusp of the whelk, the broken cupboard of the clam, the opened, blue mussels, moon snails, pale pink and bar...
lunchboxpoems : > MAGGIE SMITH
“Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. You get over it, of course. Everyone was right about that. One mathematically insignificant day, you stop hoping for happiness ...
“Which of the horses we passed yesterday whinnied all night in my dreams? I want that one.” — WILLIAM STAFFORD
Once it’s made. Yesterday three loquats lay on the ground, golden as empire. Lately your voice is tinny, gramophone cotillion and quadrille. I’m afraid to turn the record. Dirt blows over ...
lauracallaghanillustration : > Friends + strangers! My 1st solo show ‘Aspirational’ is opening > on 1st June at @kkoutlet in > Hoxton square and will run until 2nd�...
”If we were not able or did not desire to look in any new direction, if we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we would not get any new ideas. There would be nothing worth checking, be...
Dense night is a needs thing. You were lured in a luminous canoe said to have once ruled a lunar ocean. The 2 am soda pour of stars is all but silent; only listen — ...
“Which of the horses we passed yesterday whinnied all night in my dreams? I want that one.” — WILLIAM STAFFORD
witchoria : > witchoria : > >> For my mother. > > Everything I have ever done right, I did because of you. yes.
CALVIN ROSS CARL
youdonthavethis : > The state of things is nearly the same. If I pillaged my drafts, I > could come up with a lot of wrenching prose, about Almosts and For A > Whil...
“Which of the horses we passed yesterday whinnied all night in my dreams? I want that one.” — WILLIAM STAFFORD
“Responsibility to yourself… means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short, simply to avoid conflict and confrontation. And this, in turn, means resisting the forces in soc...
O California, don’t you know the sun is only a god if you learn to starve for him? I’m bored with the ocean I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow I know, I’m stran...