"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Friday, September 7, 2012

Violet...


“The wound kills that does not bleed.”
~ Wallace Stevens
 
 
In the writhing contortions
Of the violet caterpillar
On the leaf
Of the missing rose
 
 
The truth fell
Without warning
Like the droplet of blood
Once frozen on love’s thorn
 
 

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