The memories want fuel.

- Avery Lake

I almost held you, you were almost good, almost.

- Avery Lake

Pain from the angle of self-mythology

- Avery Lake

More Terrible 

Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Your distance is immense 

(We have heard something 

About galaxies fleeing) 

But far more terrible is your nearness 

Your secret presence 

Your footsteps 

Your breath 

Your whispered words 

Your cry for help. 

If you have ever wondered what

it’s like to be human,

keep wondering, brothers

and sisters, because that’s all

you can do

to try to catch

in your hands

whatever it is

that moves away

when you reach for it.

Pluto used to be a planet

and a dog, now

it’s a what?

- Ron Padgett

Only twenty minutes and

I already don’t smell

the peppermint oil

on the cotton balls

I have placed in this room

to keep the mice out.

I sit here in a cube of air,

a big nonmouse.

- Ron Padgett

I’ve come to the conclusion
that humanity is hopelessly stupid,
even more stupid than a raindrop,
but that if we could achieve the intelligence of a raindrop
we would be happy
to be one
and go splat.

- Ron Padgett

At sixteen

I decided to be a poet

forever

and now, sixty-one years later,

I stop writing

and slap my ear,

but the wily mosquito

zooms off in a blur of sound.

At birth he was a mosquito

but in a day or two

he’ll wish he had been a poet,

even one like me,

ear throbbing.

- Ron Padgett

Young men like Ruarí

Youth, S01E04

O Kant, dizem as más línguas da história da filosofia, precisava responder ao David Hume.

- Luiz Felipe Pondé, Linhas Crusadas (08/10/26)

I can hear little clicks inside my dream.

- Anne Carson

how move without moving?

remember      without despair?

- richard o. moore

behold the chain

of burned utopias

- richard o. moore

it is not easy     to give up

religious unrealities

- richard o. moore