
– W.S. Merwin, “In Time”
“Sometimes a person will believe (without being conscious of this) that she and God are alone together in the world and this will carry her through the loneliness of her life.”
— Fanny Howe, “Kristeva and Me”

I am not trying to tell a story. Yet perhaps it might be done in that way. A mind thinking. They might be islands of light—islands in the stream that I am trying to convey: life itself going on Autobiography it might be called.

“Weather Report” by Charles Bukowski

agnes martin | wheat, 1957
An excerpt from “Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus” by Denise Levertov
Robert Hass
Félix González-Torres ‘Untitled (Ross & Harry)’, 1991
James Wright