Aug. 27th, 2019

useofsorrow: (❦ we the tired ones.)
Everything said continue

or die, your choice. And that was the grief
that dazzled: knowing there are things
that should destroy us that don’t destroy us.

Carrie Fountain, closing lines to “Jornada del Muerto" in
Burn Lake (Penguin Books, 2010)
more inspiration )

"The Uses of Sorrow"

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

- Mary Oliver