( Yvonne de Carlo in Criss Cross ☆☆☆☆ / via )

"If that is true, then the world is not approaching a red line, it is living on the other side of it."

"The gray mists and the grayer houses were full of the menace of memory: they were like traitorous tombs from which the cadavers of dead hours poured forth to assail me with envenomed fangs and talons." —@klarkasht.bsky.social

From my store.

   regular sadness
not desperate rending grief
   dawn beached hard to tell
exactly what it had been
only you know that it's dead

Tanka.