I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man’s and one woman’s love and desire, against the history of [the world], the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope,...
A new moon teaches gradualnessand deliberation and how one gives birthto oneself slowly. Patience with small detailsmakes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryoforty early mornings will dofor your gradually growing...
Yes. I do love you. These tears of admissionSalt my cheeks and yours, as heart gates open,Here in the luxury of your golden arms.We edge along this scary precipiceOf aspiration, a furnace of hope,Feeding on coals of cautionary fear,And stoked by passions that pick me...
Paraphrasing by @2:50 [Universe] knows me and calls me by my name.It has created me to do some definite service;has committed some work to mewhich has not been committed to another.I have my mission—I never may know it in this life,but told it in the next. Somehow I...
Last night as I was sleeping,I dreamt—marvelous error!—that a spring was breakingout in my heart.I said: Along which secret aqueduct,Oh water, are you coming to me,water of a new lifethat I have never drunk? Last night as I was sleeping,I dreamt—marvelous error!—that...
A callarse Ahora contaremos docey nos quedamos todo quietos. Por una vez sobre la tierrano hablemos en ningún idioma,por un segundo detengámonos,no movamos tanto los brazos. Sería un minuto fragante,sin prisa, sin locomotoras,todos estaríamos juntosen una inquietud...
