only names now

They are names only now, in that sad slow almost silent ten years that precedes a poet’s death.

our logos and the cosmos

In Heraclitus’ fragments, the structure of language, the structure of thought, and the structure of the cosmos itself are all underpinned by a hidden logos. First, there is spoken logos, which humans possess, then there is the logos of the cosmos, which is silent. The correct articulation of the former leads to the revelation of the latter.

—Andrew Hui, A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter (Princeton U. Press, 2019)

clearly sealed

A book of poems found in its original shrink wrap.

sound sleeper

Inured by clamor and din, sometimes it is the nearly silent things that startle and wake us.

falling silent

Fall silent so as to gather strength, summoning the power to speak.