3rd Jul 2012✧21:4916 notes
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At dusk each winter evening, in the half hour          before they must relinquish sky to night, starlings quicken, flock in forms—symmetries          shifting—the likenesses so fast and fluid I can’t hold on to any one before          it dissolves into another, and I have taught myself to accept the seamless          recreations not as uneasy whimsy but as the musings of a lucid soul          or the disclosures of God: the wind itself made seen, the shade a shadow casts. —Claudia Emerson, opening lines to “Flocking Theory” from Secure the Shadow: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2012)
29th Jun 2012✧20:5630 notes
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Opaque  by  andbamnan