even pleasure can be a crime, especially

once it’s lost

- diane seuss

as Orr writes, we move from

choked silence to blurted speech to diary with its useless key

- Diane Seuss

Takes time to get to minimalism, years lived through, eau de suffering, yes

- Diane Seuss

Is there nobility in poems? Let’s hope not.

- Diane Seuss

No memories of pleasure and pain amidst years of a love 

that was great, but which ended sadly.

- Patricia Highsmith, Loving Highsmith (2022)

And here is my diary,

containing the body —

the painfullest feeling is not 

of your own feebleness

- Patricia Highsmith, Loving Highsmith (2022)

The Lady

Guillaume Apollinaire

Knock knock He has closed his door

The garden’s lilies have started to rot

So who is the corpse being carried from the house

You just knocked on his door

And trot trot

Trot goes little lady mouse

आकाश का सूनापन मेरे तन्हा मन में

O PASTOR

Você talvez seja...

JOHANNES

Você não me conhece. 

O PASTOR

Você é o filho do fazendeiro?

JOHANNES

Sou pedreiro. Eu construo casas, mas ninguém vai morar nelas. Querem construir sozinhos. Eles mesmos constroem, mas não sabendo como. Então, alguns deles habitam cabanas não terminadas e outros vivem em ruínas. Mas a maioria vagueia sem ter casa para morar. Você é um dos que precisam de casa?

A Palavra (1955)

INGER

Você não tem fé?

MIKKEL

Nem mesmo fé na fé.

A Palavra (1955)

 behind the silence

- diane seuss

And here

I am, broke, barely able to count to fourteen. When

people talk about math, they say you’ll need it to balance

your checkbook. What is a checkbook and what,

indeed, is balance? 

- Diane Seuss

how do I explain

this restless search for beauty or relief?

- Diane Seuss

I sorrow for silence

- Natalie Diaz