#charles wright

[v-anishings]

Clear Night, Charles Wright//unknown//Poet's Choice, Robert Hass

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "The Southern Cross", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[dk-thrive]

As always, silence will have the last word.

Charles Wright, from “The Southern Cross,” The Southern Cross (Random House, 1981) (via The Vale of Soul-Making)

[jessicainlecto]

Part IV: Yet Another 15 Favourite Poems

Avec ses vêtements ondoyants et nacrés, by Charles Baudelaire

We lived happily during the war, by Ilya Kaminsky

After great pain, a formal feeling comes, by Emily Dickinson  

You Were You are Elegy, by Mary Jo Bang

I Promise Nothing: Friends Will Part, by A.E. Housman 

Separation, and 

To ________, by W.S. Merwin 

Portrait of a Lady, by T.S. Eliot 

Your Catfish Friend, by Richard Brautigan 

Nostos, and

The Untrustworthy Speaker, by Louise Glück  

#28 from Contradictions: Tracking Poems, by Adrienne Rich 

Meditations in an Emergency, by Cameron Awkward-Rich 

Polaroids, by Charles Wright 

Invitation, by Mary Oliver 

See also Part One, Part Two, Part Three 

[eastofedean]

And you are both: the man who desperately wants to go home and the haunted house everybody seems to run away from.

[virginia woolf, a passionate apprentice: the early journals, 1897-1909 || dark side of the moon, supernatural || pilot, supernatural || home, supernatural || anna kamienska || maya angelou || james baldwin, giovanni's room || zen cho, the four generations of chang E || tasyn muir, harrow the ninth (the locked tomb) || skin, supernatural || what is and what should never be, supernatural || unknown || rachel mckibbens, outhouse || donna tartt, the goldfinch || charles wright, meditation on form and measure || gregory orr, origin of the marble forest]

[elizabethanism]

“What makes us leave what we love best?”

~ Charles Wright

[petaltexturedskies]

One morning l'll leave home and never find my way back—my story and I will disappear together, just like this.

Charles Wright, from "Appalachia" in After Reading T'ao Ching, I Wander Untethered Through The Short Grass

[thesaurushouseofdesign]

Stamp House, Cape Tribulation, Australia,

Charles Wright Architects

[dailymikeymadison]

mikey madison with friends, odessa a'zion jaden smith, gideon adlon and charles wright, in 2017

[headlightsforever]

Charles Wright, “There is a Balm in Gilead” from Buffalo Yoga, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

[sinofnervousretaliation]

— Charles Wright ; The Killing

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of the Year of the Ox", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[undinesea]

People have free-fallen for thousands of miles through the distance of the heart.

Charles Wright

[suddenly-frankenstein]

commission for @areyougonnabe with Deb and Silas on their Canadian Honeymoon! 💚

just chilling and having a good time :)

[dk-thrive]

Still, I sit still, The mind swept clean in its secret shade

— Charles Wright, from “Reply to Wang Wei” Appalachia (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998) (via The Vale of Soul Making)

[petaltexturedskies]

April is over. May moon. How many more for my regard, hundreds, a handful? Better not trouble the dark water due north of north. Better to concentrate on something close, something small. This stick, for instance. This word.

Charles Wright, from "Still Life with Stick and Word" in Chickamauga: Poems