“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”— R. Arnold
i’ve lost my head
“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”— R. Arnold
- Anne Carson
Life is always better at night
Bianca Stone, from The Möbius Strip Club of Grief; “Interior Design”
[Text ID: “I would like to “move on.” But I / carry you around like a scar, / forgetting sometimes that it is / even there / until I follow a stranger’s eye to it / during a handshake.”]
“I love talking to you, even if I have nothing to say.”— Mahmoud Darwish
from Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women’s Poetry, tr. by Marjolijn De Jager
We dream of each other and keep it a secret