Lookinghooks

"I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love."
-Sylvia Plath




"Their light! the sum of all is briefly this:
They labored and grew famous, and the fruits
Are best seen in a dark and groaning earth
Given over to a blind and endless strife...
No; I reject and spurn them utterly
And all they teach.  Shall I still sit beside
Their dry wells, with a white lip and filmed eye...?
For me, I estimate their works and them
So rightly that at times I almost dream
I too have spent a life the sages' way,
And tread once more familiar paths.  Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act, a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death,
That life was blotted out - not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again."
-Robert Browning

Picture captions:
Emma Anderson
Donald Barthelme
Miki Berenyi
Richard Buckner
Jim Carroll
Lisa Germano
James Joyce
Terrence Malick



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