Não ocorre depressão em uma sociedade determinada pelo ritual. A alma é totalmente absorvida, esvaziada, pelas formas rituais. Rituais contém mundo. Produzem uma relação forte com o mundo. Na origem da depressão, ao contrário, está uma relação consigo mesmo exageradamente tensa. Nela, se é incapaz de sair de si mesmo, de se ultrapassar em direção ao mundo, e acaba-se encapsulado em si mesmo. O mundo desaparece. Com uma angustiante sensação de vazio, circula-se apenas por si mesmo. Rituais, ao contrário, aliviam o eu do fardo de si mesmo. Eles despsicologizam e desinteriorizam o eu.

- Byung-Chul Han em O desaparecimento dos rituais

syntax

Maureen N. McLane

and if

I were to say

I love you and

I do love you

and I say it

now and again

and again

would you say

parataxis

would you see

the world revolves

anew

its axis

you

They were not kidding in the Fourteenth Century

Maureen N. McLane

They were not kidding

when they said they were blinded

by a vision of love.

It was not just a manner

of speaking or feeling

though it’s hard to say

how the dead

really felt harder

even than knowing the living.

You are so opaque

to me your brief moments

of apparent transparency

seem fraudulent windows

in a Brutalist structure

everyone admires.

The effort your life

requires exhausts me.

I am not kidding.

Tortured syntax, thorned thoughts, vocabulary

like a forest littered with unexploded

cluster bombs, no exit except explosion

ripping the branches. 

- Marilyn Hacker

wanting you so much it looks like need

- marilyn hacker

The need for the past

is so much at the center of my life

I write this poem to record my discovery of it,

my reconciliation.

- Frank Bidart

I sleep and wake and sleep and wake and sleep and wake and

- Frank Bidart

Involuted velleities of self-erasure.

- Frank Bidart

Outlander, S08E03

equinócio

a. melo

ou tô no vento

ou tô 

no chão

There is a solitude in seeing you, 

Followed by your company when you are gone.

You are like heaven’s veils of lightning. 

I cannot see till afterward

How beautiful you are. 

There is a blindness in seeing you, 

Followed by the sight of you when you are gone.

- Witter Bynner

if truth soothes

soothing was

not truth's goal

- CAConrad

everyone paying attention

enjoy your visit

everyone else

good luck

- CAConrad