July 8
Daily Wisdom
Daily Inspiration
Celeste Foley
“Tenderly”
~ Sarah Vaughan
“somewhere I have never traveled gladly beyond/any experience, your eyes have their silence:/in your most fraile gesture are things which enclose me,/or which I cannot touch because they are too near./your slightest look easily will enclose me/though I have closed myself as fingers,/you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens/(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose…/ nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals/the power of your intense fragility: whose texture/compels me with the colour of its countries,/rendering death and forever with each breathing/(I do not know what it is about you that closes/and opens; only something in me understands/ the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)/nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.”
ee cummings
“somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond”