Excerpt from Sea and Fog, Etel Adnan
We build on the ephemeral. Following a thyme bush's fragrance, we discover Guernica filled with smoke. Somebody stole the lamp. The war was lost due to compositional failure. Airplanes, stop it! Beatific vision requires elevation. We are engaging you to pay the mortgage on the groom's bed, on the bride's torn little dress.
Excerpt from Sea and Fog, Etel Adnan Rain falls. Fire-spirits create clamor and thirst in the audience. Can water be thirsty? While thunder gathers energy lines of waves turn into musical scores. Thinking captures the sounds and throws them into the storm.
Excerpt from Sea and Fog, Etel Adnan ...Together they nuzzled
her huge flank until she spilled over, and they pummeled and pulled her tough nipples, and she gave them the rich river. Excerpt from "Snow Moon–Black Bear Gives Birth," Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver it's not size but surge that tells us
when we're in touch with something real, Excerpt from "Little Owl Who Lives In The Orchard," Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver |
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