EXISTENTIAL SHEDDINGS // CELESTIAL DROWNINGS

Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

— Louise Glück, excerpt from The White Lilies

— e. e. cummings, “summer silence”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “Dawn: Aube”

from the abundance - wjm

the white angels are abloom 🌿

Paul Celan, from “Flower,” from Poetry (December 1971)

Mary Oliver, from “August,” in featured in Poetry (August 1993)

Paul Celan, from “Flower,” from Poetry (December 1971)

T. S. Eliot, from “La Figlia che Piange,” in The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems (Dover Publications, Inc., 1998).

Raymond Carver, “Hummingbird,” from All of Us: The Collected Poems

Nikolai Lantsov in Rule of Wolves (Leigh Bardugo)

How was summer?                        some             uninhabited       hope                                asking                        some mild rain. Don’t forget                               July. The consciousness Light and Space                    an art where                             you flip through the pages.              everywhere. − j. p. berame // How was summer? 

Mary Oliver, from “Stanley Kunitz,” in Dream Work

yasuko aoyama  10. 2016

— John Clare, opening line from “June”

— Thomas Carew, from “A Song”