Migrants of our own existence. Ali Smith.
We’re all migrants of our own existence now. In this bit of the world at least. So we better get ready. Because look how migrants get treated all over the world.
How to be Both, Ali Smith. 2014. P. 37
I go where I love and where I am loved
From a beautiful, old, original edition book of Adrianne Rich poems I found at a beach bookstore on the Oregon coast this weekend, comes this right off, as the title page is turned:
I go where I love and where I am loved, into the snow;
-H. D., The Flowering of the Rod
I go to the things I love with no thought of duty or pity
The nexus of mind, emotions, body
“The nexus of mind, emotions and body is an intriguing and miraculous thing that I’m convinced only God can navigate,
so give Him all of it and trust His process.”
Pastor Kip, 10/15/2023, direct text message
The Testing-Tree by Stanley Kunitz – Poems | Academy of American Poets
In a murderous time
the heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.
I am looking for the trail.
— Read on poets.org/poem/testing-tree
The Testing-Tree by Stanley Kunitz – Poems | Academy of American Poets
The Testing-Tree – On my way home from school
— Read on poets.org/poem/testing-tree
Is aesthetic standing an injury in fact?
The Paris Review – Leonard Cohen: “Poetry Is Just the Evidence of Life”
Poetry is just the evidence of life,” Cohen said once. “If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
— Read on www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/11/11/poetry-evidence-life-news/
TENABRAE – Geoffrey Hill – referenced in Sounding the Seasons – Malcom Guite
“Tenebrae (/ˈtɛnəbreɪ, -bri/[1]—Latin for “darkness”) is a religious service of Western Christianity held during the three days preceding Easter Day, and characterized by gradual extinguishing of candles, and by a “strepitus” or “loud noise” taking place in total darkness near the end of the service,” Wikipedia.
Tenebrae “was originally a celebration of matins and lauds of the last three days of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday) in the evening of the previous day (Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) to the accompaniment of special ceremonies that included the display of lighted candles on a special triangular candelabra.[2][3]” – Wikipedia.
