Last year’s hydrangeas, see how they sit yet with their full heads and measure themselves against these February melancholies together with their self- preservations to absorb nothing of winter and its required privations. See how they still cling to their own twig and branch and root, their moss and sod, how they rely on the falling away ...
Aubade for You on this Day This September First Day It is better to say “I am suffering,” Writes Simone Weil, “than to say ‘This landscape is ugly.’” Christian Wiman Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries ...
Young Mother in the Grotto Auguste Rodin 1885-1891 When I Look Back You Are Gone It’s hard to describe extreme pain, and the pain of cancer has an otherworldly intimacy that makes it almost impervious to words. It feels like existence itself is eating you. Christian Wiman Zero at the Bone Fifty Entries Against ...
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