September 2011
12 posts
Everything Is Going To Be All Right
Derek Mahon
How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.
“Summer always feels endless until it suddenly ends…September is the Monday of months.”
—
Jeff Scher, in “Summer Retreat” for New York Times’ The Animated Life blog (via eklektika)
“La solitude? Je n’ai jamais souffert que de la multitude”.”
—Nietzsche (via widewildwords)
