“The song is over
Look after yourselves.”

— Ian Duhig, from: “The Viaduct Love Suicide”

“You don’t need to be taught to cry.
The soul presses a button.
Is the cry saying something?
Does it mean help?
Or hello?”

Anne Sexton - Taken From ‘Hurry Up Please, It’s Time’

“Forgetting someone is like
Forgetting to put out the light in the back yard
And leaving it on all day …”

—  Yehuda Amichai

I carry silence with me
the way others carry snapshots
of loved ones.  I offer it
and wait for a response.

—Stephen Dunn

"Lightly, lightly, very lightly,
A wind passes very lightly
And goes away, always very lightly.
And I don’t know what I think
And I don’t want to know."

— Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), Complete poems (via 1109-83)

“When a life is over,
the one you were living for,
where do you go?”

Anne Sexton “Killing the Love”

Happiness is simple.Sadness forks into many roads.


From Spaces by Arkaye Kierulf

     “A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
              but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                     but then he’s still left with his hands.”

—	Richard Siken, "Boot Theory"

     “It is June. I am tired of being brave.”

Anne sexton,

The last time we went swimming
the sea stood up and hugged you
as though you were responsible
for keeping it blue

Bianca Stewart