The distant shores of silence begin
at the door. You cannot fly there
like a bird. You must stop, look deeper,
still deeper, until nothing deflects the soul
from the deepmost deep.
~ Karol
Tonight I walk south first,
impatient with increments–
with the hedge of peonies
unwadding, with the Rome
in chalk that walkers sack
grain by shell-pink grain.
The slowness of small dramas:
sometimes it
Standing in front of the humble wooden door of St. Ethelburga
[https://stethelburgas.org/who-we-are/our-story/] at Bishopsgate, its simple
gothic arch and stone façade an inviting refuge amongst the glassy giants
crowding
For half a decade I scoured books,
lost in salt stars and broken bodies,
not knowing you ate the bread I begged for.
And now that the library’s
doors are closed and
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