sextou

It can be hard to wake in the middle of someone
else’s leaving. Impossible even to carry that burden.

- Jason B. Crawford
until language completes itself as cyclical silence
- andrew mossin
Blessed are we the ephemeral who can contemplate movement as an image of eternity and follow intently the parabola of the arrow until it is buried beneath the line of the horizon.

- José Lezama Lima
A poem: an aviary without cages.
Gustaf Sobin
The muses don't descend: they're omnipresent.
- Gustaf Sobin
He spoke
I listened.
I spoke,
he listened.
In between
we both
heard almost
nothing. 

robert lax
sometimes i’ve tried to see more than i saw
robert lax
to be “enlightened” is not to shine; nor to bring multitudes to the hill
where one sits cross-legged, to listen.

it is rather to know what one is doing (& even, perhaps, to enjoy it).

- robert lax
one
moment
passes

another
comes on

how
was
was

how
is
is

how
will
be
will
be

was
wasn't

is
isn't

will be
won't

robert lax
when i play house
i don’t play
either the poppa
or the mama

it’s more
as though i was playing
i was
the house

robert lax