“And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate. There wasn’t a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out.”
from The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, 2013
puppies in the snow
cold winter landscapes
greys and blues and soft amber horizons
And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time…
Lyrics from the song, Wichita Lineman, written by Jimmy Webb and first performed by Glenn Campbell on his album Wichita Lineman, 1968
whispered snowflakes in the blue hour of dawn,
dreams of a swirling turquoise sea,
sparkling quartz crystals and
gleaming sapphires in midnight skies
she was a roiling,
sinister
storm
a bare beauty—
solitary,
exposed,
implied,
intuited
a stillness
a quiet
a smile
and
a nod
early, with a hush and a heavy silence,
while the kitchen smells of coffee
and the pup sleeps under warm blankets,
the sun calls at the door
Our separate lives coincided, and all my self-absorbed anxiety vanished in that one fugitive moment, when a bird in the sky on its way somewhere else sent a glance across the divide and stitched me back into a world where both of us have equal billing.
from Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald, 2020
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