“The warm and grey rain that falls in long, diagonal lines on the sea. The kind that barely wets anything and whose voice is not heard. She seeks no shelter from it, instead, offers her cheek. Because of its softness, she knows she exists.”
— Jean-Michel Maulpoix, from “Loves is what she calls these departing sailors and sailboats…”, A Matter of Blue: Poems (trans. Dawn M. Cornelio)
And if you’re lucky… it gives us another chance.”
Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
{“There are junctures where you pay the price of someone else’s Sins, through heredity, through kin, sometimes even through friends you once thought were your ultimatum, the very ones that you believe in. Sometimes, more than yourself. The end you come to will be that of blaming yourself on assets that don’t even concern you, or revolve around you. Acceptance means coming to a conclusion, from the deep depths of your own being. Which is already difficult as it is for your soul to confine and or even to consider- that not everything can be your fault. So, beaut muse. It’s out of your hands, don’t cry your heart out, nobody will hear, and nobody will discern. It is not worth it, because It’s not even your fault. And I would ask you why you are plaguing yourself in such situations as I have done before. And I know you won’t even be able to nourish a response right away, all because your sentiments are too high, and they endlessly torture you.”}
~Dilara
Clarice Lispector, from “A Breath of Life”, published posthumously in Brazil in the late 1970s
Hi we did it
apple blossomed trees / roots with the birds
"to be, or not to be"
to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.