Humidifier

                                               what

Would life be if we could not buy

Objects to care for us

And bear them home, away from the druggists' pity,

If we could not carry in our own arms

Alms, alchemy, to the safety of our bedrooms,

If there were no more

Sounds in the night, continuous

Hush, hush of warm steam, not

Like human breath though regular, if there were nothing in the world

More hopeful than the self,

Soothing it, wishing it well.

- Louise Gluck

Forever Young

It is cold to be forever young,
To come to tragic shores and flow,
In sapphire, round the sun-bleached stones,
Being, for old men, time of their time.

- Wallace Stevens

A Life

The day will come
when the earth is emptied, the skies collapse
and all goes still—
when nothing remains but the dayfly
folded in a leaf.
But no one knows it.

- Edith Södergran

A deal with God

It doesn't hurt me.
You wanna feel how it feels?
You wanna know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
You wanna hear about the deal I'm making?
You be running up that hill
You and me be running up that hill

And if I only could,
Make a deal with God,
And get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill

- Kate Bush

In nomine

In the name of the Bee —

And of the Butterfly —

And of the Breeze — Amen!

- Emily Dickinson