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“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.”

Source: Frost and Fire

“Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.”

Black Grief Window Mirrors Hats Ashes Hook Mirroring Where You Belong Black Hats

Book:Elegy: poems

Source: Elegy: poems

“The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth.”

World Lasts Black White Ashes Fog Flakes Cobwebs

Author:Denise Levertov

“The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.”

Eye Black Dark Behinds Sea Streets Cold Down And Holes Passing Passings Ashes Ink Torches Steep Canyons Squids

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.”

World Real Done Age Fall Wish Black Morality Late Red Rain Clouds Nuclear Too Late Ashes Unjust Mushrooms Real Work

Author:Edward Kennedy