#headlightsforever

[headlightsforever]

and the sea / Blinding me with its lights, the lives of the dead / Unreeling in it, spreading like oil.

Sylvia Plath, “The Rabbit Catcher” from Ariel

[headlightsforever]

Anne Carson

[headlightsforever]

Death is not violent. / If you ask the leaf on a tree in autumn if it is scared to fall off the branch / It will say, "I have given all I am to this tree and I am tired, and I'll float on down now"

Midwife, “C.R.F.W.” / from a poem written by Colin Ward

[headlightsforever]

William Bronk, “The Tell”

[headlightsforever]

I think that what poets do is decipher silence.

Ekiwah Adler Beléndez

[headlightsforever]

Linda Pastan, “Go Gentle”

[headlightsforever]

Sylvia Plath, “Tulips” from Ariel

[headlightsforever]

Rohan Chhetri, “Recrimination Fugue” from Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize