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Ha Jin, from a poem titled "Missed Time," featured in A Distant Center: Poems
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Ha Jin, from a poem titled "Missed Time," featured in A Distant Center: Poems
Missed Time
by Ha Jin
My notebook has remained blank for months thanks to the light you shower around me. I have no use for my pen, which lies languorously without grief.
Nothing is better than to live a storyless life that needs no writing for meaning — when I am gone, let others say they lost a happy man, though no one can tell how happy I was.
Missed Time, Ha Jin
ha jin missed time (via @metamorphesque) \\ emily carney bag lady, boxed
shout my daily chai latte
Steve, trying not to cry: once I was told that good men get better with age
(Looking at Eddie’s grave)
Steve, voice breaks: we’re just gonna skip that stage
(He walks away, shoulders shaking from crying, alone again)
Ha Jin with the dream: