posts tagged "dying"

"I keep going, staring

into the abyss, and wonder if there's some halfway point out in the Pacific,
 
perhaps the same spot they say the international date line is, where a wall like this,
 
only thousands of feet deeper, divides the earth into two distinct pieces, I wonder if

anyone has ever tried to pull herself down to see if there's a doorway there,

somewhere, and I want to know if anyone has ever really gotten

to the bottom of anything in this world without dying."

-Liza Porter, from "The Wall"

"Death is not romantic. He is dying,
no matter how I see it, no matter
what I believe, that fact is stark
and one dimensional, atonal,
a black note on an empty staff.”
-Dorianne Laux, from “Abschieds Symphony"