Sunday, September 15, 2024

( me / via )

Heart of the Scorpion.

"Solitude, my mother, tell me my life again."

— O. V. de Milosz via @isidro_li

The leaping or flickering of autumn.

Random # 214 = 424 in base-7; 4 + 2 + 4 = 10 lines

elongated limbo · in the lighthouse
   bells · antelucan bells
stern barricades · stymie our going
   it is late, late, so very late
   & the wheels run
i stagger · i know stints of being sure
in the longhouse · where the lighthouse has gone
   somber half-worlds crumpled
menhir & shadows clustered · i climb a pale road
   out of the irked room shambles
& look back where · a cloud lingered

"...historical narratives are ways of saying 'we’re good and we’re right; and the other side is wrong and bad'. That is the thing that is very hard to let go of." (via @aliner)

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