The Last Sky
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The Last Sky
"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. We sleep in a long reproachful dust against ourselves. We are full to the gorge with our own names for misery. Life, the pastures in which the night feeds and prunes the cud that nourishes us to despair. Life, the permission to know death. We were created that the earth might
... See moreYes, it 's true! The head which was creating, living with the highest life of art, which had realised and grown used to the highest needs of the spirit, that head has already been cut off from my shoulders. There remain the memory and the images created but not yet incarnated by me. They will lacerate me, it is true! But there remains in me my... See more
Dear Brother (1849) - Tetragrammaton
a beautiful friend passed away last night. in her honour, here’s the last poem she shared with me 12 days ago. she sent it after a conversation we had about how poetry often holds clear pointers for spiritual practice, hidden in plain sight. like her favourite lines here: https://t.co/rcqninZhMr