#secular love

[macrolit]

Secular Love, Michael Ondaatje

[elizabethanism]

The geography of this room

I know so well

tonight

I could rise in the dark

sit at the table

and write without light

-Michael Ondaatje

from “Secular Love”

[roller-wlw]

Wow, I can't believe they predicted The Stairs™️ in the soundtrack to Wayhaught's first meeting

[merulae]

Want everything. If you break  break going out not in.

Michael Ondaatje, from “To a Sad Daughter” 

[canadiana-eh]

You said, this

doesn’t happen so quick

I must remind you of someone

No,

Though I am seduced

by this light, and

frantic arguments

on the porch,

I ain’t subtle

you run rings

round me

but this quietness

white dress long legs

arguing your body

away from me

and I with all the hunger

I didn’t know I had

— Michael Ondaatje, “Rock Bottom,” Secular Love

[canadiana-eh]

because even now, now in  this brilliant darkness where grass has lost its colour and its all  fucking Yeats and moonlight, he knows this colourless grass is making his bare feet green for it is the hour of magic

Michael Ondaatje, “Claude Glass,” Secular Love

[questof-truth]

[ugh-ppl]

English teacher: what is secular love?

Eli: My love for Sam.

Teacher: I’m sure it is.

Sam: It’s unrequited.