A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson

Author:Rebecca Elson [Elson, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781784106584
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2018-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

28 April

Travelling light

Now like a wave Or bagpipes starting up

Now like particles

We can only say like

Not knowing how to see

Two things as one

And asking why that speed

And not another

8 May [Saffron Walden]

This is VE day. Here stood my mother with a glass of champagne, and so many dead ones, and sorrow, so easy to cry like that over those parted by death. And here outside is spring, a clear May sky, a bird at twilight singing his heart out. How long do birds live? And life returning even to my bones, after the half death of these months, the moments not lived, if living is to sing and dance & let your body fly through spring nights, & make love in the winter while wind rattles the windows. Live while you are still young, and be beautiful, & sparkle like diamond, like the sun on the moving ocean, because before long you will be old, if not already. And don’t worry about what might happen in the future if this or that – there will be a house full of life & friends & space & music & love. J.C. going wistfully to Paris, afraid to be lonely, why is it that we need each other so, that we kill each other. Each with his curse, of loneliness, of tragedy, of self-hate, of fear. And how lucky I am to lie down each night with an angel underneath my eaves, and be folded in the warmth of his wings.

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