Faith is only a word, embroidered.
Everything is post these days, as if we're all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own.
Even guppies have their opacities.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Don't blame me, blame history, he says, smiling. Such things happen. Falling in love has been recorded, or at least those words have.
Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.
Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shim...
By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. ...Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets,...
But who can remember pain, once it's over?
But we own nothing they want, so we don’t qualify as terrorists.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
But remember that forgiveness too is a power.
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched
But it's love that does us in.
But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.
But also I’m hungry. This is monstrous, but nevertheless it’s true. Death makes me hungry. Maybe it’s because I’ve been emptied; or maybe it’s the body’s way of seeing to it that I remain alive, conti...
But I was the daughter of a Naiad. Behave like water, I told myself. Don’t try to oppose them. When they try to grasp you, slip through their fingers. Flow around them.
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.Nobody said when.