[Art by Guilia Bernadelli]
“And all complexities of fury leave,
Dying into a dance,
An agony of trance,
An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.”
William Butler Yeats, “Byzantium”
“It was always burning since the world’s been turning”
Fall Out Boy, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
Everyday Things We Forget:
To leap across the lava, or better yet
build a bridge
with everything that is
within our reach, anything we think
can bear our weight and take the heat.
To savor plates of emptiness and drink, slowly,
cups of tea,
overflowing make-believe,
blowing our own steam.
That we are nothing
but aware
and every day we walk through flames,
sustained by air.
[by Carrie Danaher Hoyt, Poet]
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