#etel adnan
musings on Spring
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke | Pablo Neruda (?) | Louise Glück, Vita Nova | Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro | Vladimir Nabokov, Mary | Etel Adnan, Jebu | Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary | Bangtan Sonyeondan (방탄소년단), 봄날 (Spring Day) | Artwork by Claude Monet
In the dark irritation of the eyes there is a snake hiding
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from “XXXVI from The Arab Apocalypse” by Etel Adnan
Illegitimate is this linden tree
which shakes by my door
let us get ready for Hell!
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from “The Manifestations of the Voyage” by Etel Adnan
The Word has sunk
we are left with no cry gesture
or gaze
silence to us is forbidden.
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from “The Manifestations of the Voyage” by Etel Adnan
“Do you think that spring is just behind the door? I don’t know. There is something scary in the air, the acceleration of invisible things”— Etel Adnan, Paris, When It’s Naked