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[witekspicsoldpostcards2]

KUNITZ near JENA - GERMANY (PS: note the only 3 digit phone #).

[theshatterednotes]

Stanley Kunitz

[we503]

Epilogue

1.

I have learned how faces fall to bone, how under the eyelids terror lurks, how suffering inscribes on cheeks the hard lines of its cuneiform texts, how glossy black or ash-fair locks turn overnight to tarnished silver, how smiles fade on submissive lips, and fear quavers in a dry titter. And I pray not for myself alone... for all who stood outside the jail, in bitter cold or summer's blaze, with me under that blind red wall.

from ‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova

translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward

[coffeenuts]

Kunitzer Hausbrücke by TERUKI Photography https://flic.kr/p/2kRZ1ag

[mschristinamaria]

Light splashed this morning on the shell-pink anemones swaying on their tall stems; down blue-spiked veronica light flowed in rivulets over the humps of the honeybees; this morning I saw light kiss the silk of the roses in their second flowering, my late bloomers flushed with their brandy. A curious gladness shook me.

So I have shut the doors of my house, so I have trudged downstairs to my cell, so I am sitting in semi-dark hunched over my desk with nothing for a view to tempt me but a bloated compost heap, steamy old stinkpile, under my window; and I pick my notebook up and I start to read aloud the still-wet words I scribbled on the blotted page: “Light splashed . . .”

I can scarcely wait till tomorrow when a new life begins for me, as it does each day, as it does each day.

-Stanley Kunitz, “The Round”

[idontgiveaflyinggrayson69]

I was trying to make a point to someone and had to look up the old Penguins roster and... well...

There is so much nostalgia in this picture I can’t. I feel like crying. 

[connercarrick]

@mkunitz14 Comic Book L😍VERS! #happyhalloween

[rosesforleo]

Kunitz: HOW DARE YOU TOUCH GENO YOU PIG