Latest Posts by moonmovement - Page 8
We teeter / on the brink of time, you and I, he, she, / all of us, all so worthy of pity.
Maria Bigoszewska, tr. Regina Grol
The light is nervous and quiet -
Urszula M. Benka, To the Last Man on Earth, In the Hour of His Death tr. Regina Grol
I pray as if you existed.
Maria Bigoszewska, tr Regina Grol
“You / bring out the sea in me, so wade. / Wade in this.”
— Jasmine Reid, from “Instructions for the Moon,” Deus Ex Nigrum
“I drink to our ruined house To the evil of my life To our loneliness together And I drink to you— To the lying lips that have betrayed us, To the dead-cold eyes, To the fact that the world is brutal and coarse To the fact that God did not save us.”
— Anna Akhmatova, Last Toast, trans. by Kate Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
“Then when G-d asks [Cain], ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ he arrogantly responds, ‘I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?’ In essence, the entire Bible is written as an affirmative response to this question.”
— Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy (via levoneh)