I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their 

exteriors—and that the eye-sight has another eye-sight, and the hearing 

another hearing, and the voice another voice.

- Walt Whitman

I was wrong about the categories, the binaries, S told me. I was wrong about 

who was weak and who was strong, ruthless and kind, gay and straight.

- Bruce Smith

Between oblivion and affection,

which one is fear and which protection?

- Bruce Smith

Is I the insomniac’s question?

- Bruce Smith

It’s all distress and excess

- Bruce Smith

the fiction of silence

- bruce smith

I walked in the romantic garden and I walked

in the garden of ruin.

- Bruce Smith

Thy silent eares

- George Herbert

The Moments of Dominion

That happen on the Soul

And leave it with a Discontent

Too exquisite – to tell –

- Emily Dickinson

Saudade é um aperreio

- Patativa do Assaré

Com o belo amanhã que ilude a gente,

Cada qual anda alegre e sorridente

- Patativa do Assaré

Só canto o buliço da vida apertada

- Patativa do Assaré

I knew you. Didn’t I? Naked in that

open field, unhidden. We were bigger

than all of mankind’s metal gods.

- CJ Evans