We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
(via nobranch)
About
Search for content
Denise Levertov
Human being - walking
in doubt from childhood on: walkinga ledge of slippery stone in the world’s woods
deep-layered with wet leaves - rich or sad: on one
side of the path, ecstasy, on the other
dull grief. Walkingthe mind’s imperial cities, roofed-over alleys,
…
(via littlegreendays)
" Such a short voyage for a god
and you arrived in animal form so as not
to scorch us with your glory
Your mask was an infant’s head on a limp stalk,
sticky eyes smeared blind,
limbs rendered useless in swaddle.
You came among beasts
as one, came into our care or its lack, came crying
as we all do, because the human frame
is a crucifix, each skeleton borne a lifetime.
Any wanting soul lain
prostrate on a floor to receive the poured sunlight
might — if still enough,
feel your cross buried in the flesh.
One has only to surrender,
you preached, open both arms to the inner,
the ever-present embrace,
which props one up, out-reaches every grasp.
It’s in the form imbedded,
love adamant as bone. The miracle’s not just
that you became us, but also
those breathed-in instants allotted to us each
(even poor Brother Judas),
when one relinquishes self and will and want.
Then you’re laid bare in us,
and for some briefly gentle eyeblink
we bloom and are you."
~
“Descending Theology: Christ Human”
Mary Karr, Poetry Magazine, December 2001
There’s another version of this floating around the internet - it may or may not have been in Sinners Welcome, I don’t have my copy so I can’t check - but I like this version better.
(via alissawilkinson)
(via alissawilkinson)
(via nobranch)
"The greatest weakness of most humans
Is their hesitancy to tell others,
How much they love them
While they’re alive."
~ O.A. Battista (via modernhepburn)
(Source: thelandlockedmariner)
(via littlegreendays)
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via -witheverything)
(Source: tzarevitch)
(via thesunshinepolicy)
I underestimate the power of words to alter real things, like the chemistry of relationships or the shape of the brain. How strange that news in all its forms can do so much to the world and to our bodies. After a while of feeling removed from language, it is always a shock to me that plain speech…
(via littlegreendays)
