[mind] frame

"The answers have been all used up.

Perhaps they never existed

and were only mirrors

 face to face with emptiness"

— Roberto Juarroz

"naked names"

"The ancient Rose remains by its name;

naked names are all that we have."

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

City vortex

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, 
a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it 
as though it had an underlying truth."

― Umberto Eco (1932 - 2016)

Blossoms

"The gap between lover and beloved is the space where 

the most critical emotional and spiritual work takes place." 

― Mark Epstein, M.D.

The underpass

"Nothing can drive one closer to his own insanity 

than a haunting memory refusing its own death."

― Darnella Ford

"Seeing for a moment" (Denise Levertov)

                                                               Supposably Both

_ _ _

I thought I was growing wings —

it was a cocoon.

I thought, now is the time to step

into the fire —

it was deep water.

Eschatology is a word I learned

as a child: the study of Last Things;

facing my mirror — no longer young,

the news — always of death,

the dogs — rising from sleep and clamoring

and howling, howling,

nevertheless

I see for a moment

that's not it: it is

the First Things.

Word after word

floats through the glass.

Towards me.

— Denise Levertov