A sentence from “Loon Lake” by E. L. Doctorow
A Sentence from "Loon Lake" The loons they heard were the loons we hear today, cries to distract the dying loons diving into the cold black lake and diving back out again in a whorl… Continue Reading
“Ditty of First Desire” by Federico García Lorca
Ditty of First Desire In the green morningI wanted to be a heart.Heart. And in the ripening eveningI wanted to be a nightingale.Nightingale. Soul,turn the color of oranges.Soul,turn the color of love. In the living… Continue Reading
“If I have to live without you” by Julio Cortázar
If I have to live without you If I have to live without you, let it be bloody and hard,cold soup, broken shoes, or in the midst of richness,let there rise up in me the… Continue Reading
“Do not fall in love with people like me” by Caitlyn Siehl
Do not fall in love with people like me (2014) Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful… Continue Reading
“Fear / O Medo” by Maria Teresa Horta
Fear Fear builds its fenceof thornsslowly, with murmurssurrounds us But where is the gatethat leads to the pathby which one arrivesat the shadowy forest? There shelterour most intimateour most ferocious animals Our most atrocious fear… Continue Reading
“Shinto” by Jorge Luis Borges
Shinto When sadness overwhelms us,for a moment we are savedby small adventuresof memory or attention:the taste of fruit, the taste of water,the face a dream gives back to us,the early jasmines of November,the endless yearning… Continue Reading
“Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude” by Shuntaro Tanikawa
Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude Human beings on this small orbsleep, waken and work, and sometimeswish for friends on Mars. I’ve no notionwhat Martians do on their small orb(neririing or kiruruing or hararaing)But sometimes they… Continue Reading
“The Clock in Literature” by Aram Saroyan
The Clock in Literature “Would you mindIf I headed up early?”Says the husbandTo his young wife.“Follow when you like.” Later that eveningThe beautiful faceAnd exquisite limbsWill rise from the tableOf the Southern innHaving been spiedBy… Continue Reading
“10 Rules for Being Human” by Chérie Carter-Scott
10 Rules for Being Human If you scroll social media at all, you may have come across a list of 10 RuIes for Being Human. Often these aphorisms are said to be from "ancient Sanskrit"… Continue Reading
“Limits / Límites” by Jorge Luis Borges
Limits Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset,There must be one (which, I am not sure)That I by now have walked for the last timeWithout guessing it, the pawn of that Someone… Continue Reading