June 2022

this house will sound no longer like your heart but
your heart will sound like this house, built tall
from imagined things, high ceilings, echoes,
stopped clock pieces, empty nests, gasping
roots. Your heart will feel like this house.
 - Lewis Mundt
12:00 PM June 29th

Everything is endured - disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui - in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.
 - Henry Miller
2:00 PM June 28th

and surely we shall not continue to be unhappy
we shall be happy
but we shall continue to be ourselves everything

continues to be possible
 - Frank O'Hara
3:00 PM June 27th

and what I do not say is, I trust the world to come back.
Return like a word, long forgotten and maligned
for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sun beam,
the world walking in, ready to be ravaged, open for business.
 - Ada Limón
10:30 AM June 26th

Isn't joy a kind of stillness at the top of something, before the long falling?
 - Stephen Dunn
8:00 AM June 23rd

Life will continue to be a hell as long as the people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality. Switching from one ideology to another is a useless game.
 - Henry Miller
11:30 AM June 22nd

Nothing is proposed that can last more than twenty-four hours. We are living a million lives in the space of a generation.
 - Henry Miller
11:00 AM June 21st

You want to rid yourself of your clothes, take a running leap and vault into the blue. You want to float in the air like an angel or lie in the grass rigid and enjoy the cataleptic trance. Stone and sky, they marry here.
 - Henry Miller
12:00 PM June 17th

The truth is dark under your eyelids.
What are you going to do about it?
 - Charles Simic
3:00 PM June 16th

They tell us the people we love are 72.8% water -
there is no such thing as crying,
we are only trying to turn ourselves inside out.
This is a noble pursuit.
 - Lewis Mundt
10:00 AM June 15th

I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.
 - Clarice Lispector
2:00 PM June 14th

History is a cookbook. The tyrants are chefs. The philosophers write menus. The priests are waiters. The military men are bouncers. The singing you hear is the poets washing dishes in the kitchen.
 - Charles Simic
11:00 AM June 13th

but sometimes
we take off our watches,
sometimes we lie in the hammock,
caught between the mesh
of rope and the net of stars,
suspended, tangled up
in love, running out of time.
 - Barbara Crooker
12:00 PM June 10th

To see someone who does not see is to be intensely aware of what he does not see.
 - Roland Barthes
12:30 PM June 9th

Between where you are now and where you'd like to be there's a sort of barrier, or a chasm, and sometimes it's a good idea to imagine that you're already at the other side of that chasm, so that you can start on the unknown side.
 - David Bohm
11:30 AM June 8th

Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then - poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.
 - Charles Simic
12:30 PM June 7th

If it rains it seems like the water
is washing your bones,
but if hail hits your shoulders,
it's like a swarm of grasshoppers jumping.
Fog cancels even thoughts
and they stay like lit candles
burning in the brain.
 - Tonino Guerra
2:00 PM June 6th
 

Let us save at least half of our lives for the enjoyment of this wonderful world which still exists. Leave your dens, abandon your cars and walk out into the great mountains, the deserts, the forests, the seashores.
 - Edward Abbey
12:30 PM June 3rd

Our poverty of knowing is so great we are afraid to admit to it, but would rather blather and rationalize our way away as though by pretending to know who we are we can leave our mark on the world. What then when the mark we leave is a wound?
 - Terrance Keenan
11:30 AM June 2nd

To die is easy when we are in perfect health. On a fine spring morning, out of doors, on the downs, mind and body sound and exhilarated, it would be nothing to lie down on the turf and pass away.
 - Mark Rutherford
3:15 PM June 1st