“God is the present tense. That’s why it’s so hard to seize the moment. God is the eternal now. We either chase the past or escape into the future, place our whole hope in the future. Whereas faith, hope, and love must ripen in the present. That’s why we ignore time, waste it, kill it. […]
ANNA KAMIENSKA
BODIES
Bodies disappear like ghostsbecome invisibleuntouchable absentdiscovered in bathtubsfainting on streetsswaying on stretchersdeparting with a photograph in handfreed from a watch a wedding ring an umbrellabeautiful as during a nuptial nightnakedtruly faithful this time for everfriends with silencethat is with things in themselvesreturning through the side door of a dreamsuddenly omnipresentscreaming without soundfrom inconsolable longing —Anna […]