Enlighten Me

My whole life, I think, I will use for describing you.

What do I know outside of words, which despite their history and combinations, are too few and short for this life.

I don’t know if I want heaven, but I know I want

to be where you go—”

Saint Jean-Cap Ferrat 1949

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

French Russian Artist

Cubism

"In our life there is a single color... which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."

Arnold Pouwel :: Wild Night

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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

“flower”

2017.6.28

"Publishing, for me, has become less about sending work out and more about placing a poem where it belongs. Letting it be encountered slowly, or accidentally, or not at all. Trusting that it will be read by the right few."

atomic skunk

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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Photo: The Burren, County Clare, Ireland (John's stamping ground)

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"The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. Its surface texture of grass and stone is blessed by rain, wind, and light. With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy of the seasons, giving itself unreservedly. The shape of a landscape is an ancient and silent form of consciousness. Mountains are huge contemplatives. Rivers and streams offer voice; they are the tears of the earth's joy and despair. The earth is full of soul."

~ John O'Donohue, 'Anam Cara'

is to turn an hourglass on end,

to watch now sift

until a still, held emptiness

is all that remains.”

— Greg Sellers, journal entry, Notes from Neruda’s Ghost, 23 February 2019