“I still can’t say what life is for, but it can’t be to pretend that every part of it is knowable, or that what appears to be to the naked eye or in the middle ground or documented on paper approximates a person any better than a daisy does our sun.” PeopleLifeHumansPoetryPurposeKnowingPoemLivingUnknowing Author:Timothy Donnelly
“The long night reminds me that so much of what it means to be a person shines through obscurity, like odd condiments bought on impulse, tested once, then pushed to the back of the refrigerator in their smartly labeled bottles and jars.” LifePoetryHumanityPoemBeing HumanObscurityCondiments Author:Timothy Donnelly