fire under water

— Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories

Sabin Bălașa, The City (Oraşul), 1967

Coming to Writing, Hélène Cixous

la bêche et l'épée contre l'usurier!

You don’t have to belong everywhere (textile home)

upstream, mary oliver; gravity and grace, simone weil; journal of a solitude, may sarton

Galina Bitt — Labyrinth (gouache and lead white on black panel, 1968)

Something comes into the world unwelcome calling disorder, disorder – If you hate me so much don’t bother to give me a name: do you need one more slur in your language, another way to blame one tribe for everything – as we both know, if you worship one god, you only need one enemy – I’m not the enemy. Only a ruse to ignore what you see happening right here in this bed, a little paradigm of failure. One of your precious flowers dies here almost every day and you can’t rest until you attack the cause, meaning whatever is left, whatever happens to be sturdier than your personal passion – It was not meant to last forever in the real world. But why admit that, when you can go on doing what you always do, mourning and laying blame, always the two together. I don’t need your praise to survive. I was here first, before you were here, before you ever planted a garden. And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon are left, and the sea, and the wide field. I will constitute the field.

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