"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



Monday, August 18, 2014

Leonard Cohen ~ Beneath My Hands


"Beneath my hands

your small breasts

are the upturned bellies

of breathing fallen sparrows.


Wherever you move

I hear the sounds of closing wings

of falling wings.


I am speechless

because you have fallen beside me

because your eyelashes

are the spines of tiny fragile animals."


~ Leonard Cohen, Beneath my Hands


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