Like the back of a picture
Anton's Prayer book in Croatian that traveled across the sea to America and then back to Croatia / Published in 1902
Certain
words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never
forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture. Like our
marrow, and the color in our veins. We shine the lantern of our sleep
on them, to make sure, and there they are, trembling already for the
day of witness. They will be buried with us, and rise with the rest.
~ Language by W.S. Merwin
~ Language by W.S. Merwin
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