December 2011
20 posts
“You have shown me the sky, but what good is the sky to a creature who will never...”
– Aldonza, Man of La Mancha
Music from - She Likes Cloth →
Spicing up “Deck the halls” with sax and banjo
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"Safe Sex" by Donald Hall
If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident
they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;
if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire
only the tribute of another’s cry; if they employ each other
as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel—
then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,
no frenzy, no hurled words of...
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"Happiness" by Jane Kenyon
There's just no accounting for happiness,
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away.
And how can you not forgive?
You make a feast in honor of what
was lost, and take from its place the finest
garment, which you saved for an occasion
you could not imagine, and you weep night and day
to know that you were not abandoned,
that...
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“Let’s sail away disappearing in a mist. Let’s sail away with a...”
– “Tereza and Tomas” by Bright Eyes
What I believe, how I used to see the world and the hills I died on has changed so very much. For the better?
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"Location, Location, Location" by Gabriel Gadfly
I could have kissed you under cherry blossoms, pale petals drifting down like the trees wanted to pretend they could be snowclouds.
I could have kissed you in the rain, drenched to our bones and not even caring that the skies opened up above us and tried to wash us out.
I could have kissed you in a clearing in the most secluded woods, with just the sound of wind rustling through the leaves and a...
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"I know a man" by Yehuda Amichai
I know a man who photographed the view he saw from the window of the room where he made love and not the face of the woman he loved there.