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We look at the world once, In childhood. The rest is memory. ~ Louise Glück
Michael Fenton
Feb 23, 20141 min read
A birdsong can …
A birdsong can even, For a moment, Make the whole world Into a sky within us, Because we feel that the bird Does not distinguish Between...
Michael Fenton
Dec 27, 20131 min read
Leaving
And we: spectators, Always, everywhere, Looking at everything, And never from! Who’s turned us round Like this, So that whatever we do,...
Michael Fenton
Dec 3, 20131 min read
Answers
Don’t search for the answers, Which could not be given to you now, Because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live...
Michael Fenton
Dec 1, 20131 min read
The shadow-past…
The shadow-past is shaped By everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present Like rain through karst. A biography of...
Michael Fenton
Nov 30, 20131 min read
They will gaze …
They will gaze up and strain To find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less For its obscurity and fragility. They will...
Michael Fenton
Nov 28, 20131 min read
In The Park
And I know that this life Is the only real form of happiness, But sometimes in its midst I can hear the dense, stifled sob Of the unreal...
Michael Fenton
Nov 23, 20131 min read
Still
If you keep still and do not speak, You might hear your whole life fill the world; Until the wind is the only word. ~Tishani Doshi
Michael Fenton
Nov 22, 20131 min read
Wheels
This wind, It was not the ending. There are no endings, And never will be endings, To the turning of the Wheel of Time. — Robert Jordan...
Michael Fenton
Nov 22, 20131 min read
An empty void
An empty void is better than no void at all.
Michael Fenton
Nov 15, 20131 min read
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