“I love three things,” I then say. “I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.”

“And which do you love best?”

“The dream.”
-Knut Hamsun

"I was right not to settle. I was right to keep dreaming, because it’s all come true. Darling, we’re going to be so happy here. This house and I were waiting for you. I was always waiting for you, I think."

-From Gentleman's Agreement

When I Met My Muse

I glanced at her and took my glasses
off—they were still singing. They buzzed
like a locust on the coffee table and then
ceased. Her voice belled forth, and the
sunlight bent. I felt the ceiling arch, and
knew that nails up there took a new grip
on whatever they touched. “I am your own
way of looking at things,” she said. “When
you allow me to live with you, every
glance at the world around you will be
a sort of salvation.” And I took her hand.

-William Stafford

~

A slackening rain offers its small rhythm
to the rooftop, a soft shudder runs
through the house. On the radio,
Roethke is reading
of a woman he knew.
You are wearing
one of my shirts.

Now, I know it’s no more
possible to own a moment
than a person, but sometimes
we can settle into one,
like a tide returning from the shore,
a soft relaxing back into the sea.

Wind slides the unlatched door
open, mist from the rain
catches the ends of your hair.
On the tips of your fingers,
my body seems achingly beautiful.

Today, we could begin to grow
back every limb we have lost.

-Andy Weaver

I'll meet you here.

As angry as a breeze
Tugging hard upon your sails
I've been moving through these streets forever
From Baltimore to Amsterdam
These things inside me
They repeat like broken records
Spinning pretty somethings behind my eyes
And when I can't look at you
I can paint your picture perfectly in my mind

And when I get old
I'm gonna miss you all the time...
-Ryan Adams:-

Love and falling leaves, le mi amici! xx