thoughts about, quotes from reading caste

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

"None of us are ourselves."

"Strange things pop up at us when we are liberated from our delusions" ... 122

"But he discovered he was a captive of his own conditioning, which he called a certain madness." 122

the mudsill

The morning will soon 

escape cool for dry.

I watch the sky for swift, swallow, kite.

West,

the sea

opens,

an azure glare.

I stare south into a wood, 

past fields

easing green.

Need days 

for  

playing minuets,

writing letters,

and laughter.

 

Saint's night bright without barking

 none of us are ourselves

Steep places, these,

edged into 

sea scarps,

rock rouged, rough.

Pastured to the

the brink

of what

we think 

is known.

 

This is insularity

aging seen as stone - 

legacies  of

hand, foot, pressed against,

placed loose

against the precipice.

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,
And field, and forest, as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes, yet with hopes that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day.

- C.S. Lewis, epitaph for Joy Davidman

six a.m. -

a fluttering

muttering

round of

sound

 

Lomba 

is a road hump

or was,

once.

In a dream,

I spy

a sleeping policeman.

Both

cop and mound

as sounds,

to my sleeping mind,

seem somehow salted,

tidal,

and fishy.

 

thoughts

days of it

then

rains

again

____________ 

what is just

must concern you

_______________

Pergunta-me.

Como é que os dias o cativam, o abraçam, o inspiram?

Por vezes, diante de mim, vejo apenas uma procissão pouco clara de intenções.

 

Ask me.

How do the days captivate you, embrace you, inspire you?

Sometimes, in front of me, I see only an unclear procession of intentions.
 

_________________

Enjoo de movimento. Envelhecimento.

(Motion sickness. Aging.)

__________________

corrosive vocabulary

___________________

pattern recognition in 

or

more an absence of

____________________

 acho 

este tanto mais

é demasiado

estou a procurar de  ma 間

em todos os sítios errados

_______________________

 I think

this much more

is too much

i'm looking for ma 間

in all the wrong places