Seduction

Weep not for little Leonie,
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench,
Just think how it's improved her French.

-- Harry Graham

Eyes ( Read more... )

The Bird ( Read more... )

A Boy and a Girl ( Read more... )

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IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.

VII.

SETTING SAIL.

Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, --
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!

Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?

Emily Dickinson

I recently purchased a recording of Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians." I like to listen to it with the lights off, my eyes closed, and I imagine that I'm riding a bicycle through a busy city at night. It brings a sense of escape and peace...both are welcomed.

Parable ( Read more... )

Brotherhood

Homage to Claudius Ptolemy

I am a man: little do I last
and the night is enormous.
But I look up:
the stars write.
Unknowing I understand:
I too am written,
and at this very moment
someone spells me out.

Octavio Paz
Translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger