4 selections from Jane Hirshfield's book of poems, The Lives of the Heart, 1997
The Lives of the Heart
Red Bird Explains Himself
by Mary Oliver, final poem of the book Red Bird, 2008
red bird
everything is seen & heard
Reading List 2018
Books read in 2018. Many were carried around as life-companions, Vollmann's dove book on violence, in particular.
The Funeral of Shelley
Percy Shelley drowns in 1822, at age 29. Painting by Louis Édouard Fournier, 1889.
House of Light
Mary Oliver, poem titled Maybe from the collection House of Light, 1990
The Ghost’s Leavetaking
Sylvia Plath, poem from 1958
Rising Up and Rising Down
William T. Vollmann "Silence, always silence precedes the fateful change; the act is not the change but its consequence."
Rilke Note-book entry
"His life was already beyond...but he had not peeled off the Self cleanly and effectively."
