Joseph Fasano, From Elegy For A Year

Joseph Fasano, from “Elegy for a Year”

“Her eye and my ‘I’: Her gazing Creates me.”

— Gregory Orr, from “Here eye and my ‘I’,” How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)

A student sitting under a cherry tree sketching the blossom as a woman in a kimono looks on, Japan, 1950s

“…there is in everything you do a kind of incantation,”

— Roland Barthes, from a letter to Jean Cayrol circa 1954, featured in Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts (via theoptia)

“You moved in me, like prayer.”

— Rickey Laurentiis, from “King of Shade, King of Scorpions,” Whipped (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013)

growing up a girl letting people do things to you for years and years and years means your anger will turn biblical. anger that is incoherent unidentifiable inconsolable