"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



Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Dalliance

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."

~ Mary Oliver


Lines bleed into lines

Time and tension between breaths

Rotating spheres with similar regrets

Interchangeable eyes

Posing questions of consequence


The music plays

The melody stays

The beat sustains

The lyrical change


A blind pirouette

Dalliance and doubt

Charades and musical chairs with vodka and gin

Whose bed are you in?

With eyes closed there is no sin



 

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