While I, remembering,

all that was there, will be there still

found no word to say

I'll let it pass and hold my tongue

- Christina Rossetti & Dido

Memória

AR

Luz residual

numa superfície

irrevelada

Caught afterglow thrown back from long set days, 

Caught echoes of all music passed away. 

- Christina Rossetti

no trace of memory in his eyes

- christina rossetti

O fantasma não ressuscita o passado.

Ele prova que o passado está morto.

- AR

Life might be very small victories and meanings.

Is saying “joy” a joyous thing, in and of itself?

- Max Ritvo

Study Questions:

What does time mean to Atlas?

What is symbolic? Would you like a simile?

- Max Ritvo

It’s hard to love people committed to projects

- Max Ritvo

Above me are stars

but no constellations.

- Max Ritvo

I am possessed with self-pity,

and it is expressing itself

out of my mouth. It sounds like a whole flock of sheep suddenly

realizing the flock is an imposed externality.

- Max Ritvo

Don’t wish for anything. Don’t get organized.

Don’t buy a book. Don’t go to bed early.

Seek out beige, in foodstuffs and landscapes.

Chew gum if you’re overwhelmed.

You’re in this alone. That means there’s nobody to stop you.

You’re almost at the finish line.

But first, you have to pick a finish line.

- Max Ritvo

Nobody ever tells you how busy loneliness is

- Max Ritvo

The Real Housewives of somewhere

on high volume

- Ryann Stevenson