February 2012
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“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via loveyourchaos)
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A Color of the Sky - Tony Hoagland →
Windy today and I feel less than brilliant,
driving over the hills from work.
There are the dark parts on the road
when you pass through clumps of wood
and the bright spots where you have a view of the ocean,
but that doesn’t make the road an allegory.
I should call Marie and apologize
for being so boring at dinner last night,
but can I really promise not to be...
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Poem Beginning with a Line by Milosz - Mark Irwin →
“The most beautiful bodies are like transparent glass.”
They are bodies of the selfless or of those newly
dead. What appears transparent is really flame
burning so brightly it appears like glass. What
you’re looking through is the act of giving: One
thing in life needed desperately, given to another,
or perhaps life itself. The most beautiful bodies
are not transparent, but sometimes the...
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