A writer must “know and have an ever-present consciousness that this world is a world of fools and rogues… tormented with envy, consumed with vanity; selfish, false, cruel, cursed with illusions… He should free himself of all doctrines, theories, etiquettes, politics…” —Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?). “The nobility of the writer's occupation lies in resisting oppression, thus in accepting isolation” —Albert Camus (1913-1960). “What are you gonna do” —Bertha Brown (1895-1987).
Moon Horror
ReplyDeleteOnce I saw the moon
drift up as if balanced
by invisible legs.
I saw it melt, then freeze,
lose itself like a face
vanishing at night,
like white fire fallen to ash.
I feared this most:
this white wingless stone
drifting alone.
I was afraid of what infinitely
surrounded it – those things
older than love and death.
March 24, 1975