from BARDO

The stars are in our belly; the Milky Way our umbilicus.

Is it a consolation that the stuff of which we’re made

is star-stuff too?


– That wherever you go you can never fully disappear –

dispersal only: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen.


Tree, rain, coal, glow-worm, horse, gnat, rock.


Roselle Angwin

Friday, 22 March 2013

the world, rolling in ecstasy



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'You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen; simply wait. You need not even wait; just learn to become quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.' 
Franz Kafka

~~~

with thanks to my dear friend Jenny



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2 comments:

  1. mm26 March 2013 at 04:50

    Ah, I needed to read this. Thank you.

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  2. roselle26 March 2013 at 09:28

    Yes... isn't it such a useful reminder, in our driven world and driven lives?

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