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Keith Wilson

Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love

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  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    sometimes love is a black dot

    in a field

    sometimes, suddenly

    it is not
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    I’m really trying

    to be better, to commit

    to memory the old songs about the ground,

    to better sense your latitudes
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    I know the difference between imagination and memory no more than this,

    than you
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    Light as Imagined through a Body of Ice

    An expansion into light, or we could have been, or were

    for a moment.
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    We would,

    without half-trying, alight one upon the other.
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    A feather is caught in the rapture of a fence,

    keeps struggling—can’t come to terms—

    cannot unthink that it’s a bird
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    The dead teach us that kind of patience.

    How different the drawings of a people must be

    who have always had this kind of time.
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    if you can imagine the elements of those atoms, of those ants

    and rabbits, as not the skin of the observable universe

    but the whisper upon which we built a hearth,

    you’ll understand.
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    it’s said we are afraid

    of what we don’t understand. who

    among us is shaken by latin? we are terrified of what might

    overtake us. sadness, marriage, spanish,

    rain.
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted4 years ago
    if the silence of the two of us

    were predicated by my being able now to reach you,

    how that quiet, that night, in this room, might seem a comfort,

    but instead of that, the candles

    between, and neither of us with anything

    in particular to say, the quiet trembles
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