litografia

claudia roquette-pinto

mas se eu uso uma palavra nova

como tivesse uma pedra na língua 

áspera troca tranca trinca

maxilares dormentes

cada síbaba faz-se displicente

o acaso de estar intrometida

entre outros rumores ainda

mais dizeres

pronuncia-se esta pepita 

com lábios de desagravo

enquanto em segredo relevos

de quartzo

chacoalham num alvoroço

de dentes e ditos e datas

custa o tempo de um tropeço

lapidar uma palavra

Foolishness? No, It’s Not

Mary Oliver

Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. To do this I have to climb branch by branch and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of view, it’s reasonable that my friends say: what foolishness! She’s got her head in the clouds again.

But it’s not. Of course I have to give up, but by then I’m half crazy with the wonder of it—the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise

Is a prayer a gift, or a petition,

or does it matter?

- Mary Oliver

Absolute attention is prayer.
- Simone Weil

Branches without leaves over bare ground

pretend to reveal everything.

- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

stillness turns in its well

- mei-mei berssenbrugge

Yet suddenly: silence.

- Georg Trakl

I refer more to relation than beings.

- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

- Paul Klee

Being is not the straight line a photon travels, but fractal, 

like the edge of a borealis. 

- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

You can rise to a level of not knowing that’s untouched by entropy. 

Out of uncertainty, openness: order is maintained.

- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

We now find ourselves in a world where we understand how everything works

but we know the meaning of nothing.

- John Lennox quotes Iain McGilchrist, The Diary of a CEO (June 2026)

I think I must be somewhere else, not here,

not in this city, this heartland of pure noise.

- Ai

in the silence so complete

- ai