And when her heart made
that sad little oboe note
she wanted to know where
the mind came from,
and was as answerless
as if she sat in the middle
of a beginningless river.

Mary Ruefle, from “Maria and the Halls of Perish,” published in Bennington Review (via lifeinpoetry)

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“Vulpes vulpes”, 2015, Ball point pen, Ink pencils, Acrylic ink, Marker, Colored pencil, Graphite, and Gel pen on Hot-Pressed Watercolor Paper, 18 ¼ x 24in,

$2,200. Available, and view able, at Roq La Rue Gallery until May 30th.

lifeinpoetry:

each morning i pull myself
out of despair

from a night of coals and a tongue
blistered with smiling

the step past the mother bed
is a high step

the walk through the widow’s door
is a long walk

and who are these voices calling
from every mirrored thing

say it coward say it

Lucille Clifton, 

[Each Morning I Pull Myself],” published in The Kenyon Review