The Snow and the Snow Quotes

“4. Full Circle

Today I like the traffic jam.
The engine noises heard in detail.
My whole life, a river of thresholds, stitches itself together
and gazes at me
from everywhere.
I like these places where time kinks and looks back over its shoulder
at itself. It confuses them, who are used to being blurs.
But I’m alright here with my terror. I’m in no hurry.
I get paid by the hour.
I let anybody merge in front of me.
I know there’s nowhere to hide.”
― Richard Cronshey, The Snow and the Snow

“2
Here is your inheritance:
to be a person and go on blushing, applauding,
saying “pardon me” without understanding
how it started, or stopping to ask;
believing somebody else knows;
not wanting to be alone.
Esoteric burlesque blossoming in mirrors, paraphernalia,
rainbows, dolorous sombreros, days.
The same presence everywhere. Look for it, it eludes you.
Not wanting to be the only one
with a small black coffin in your heart,
a small black coffin the size of a thumb
with nothing in it but wind.
For now, take this black rock and go on polishing it.
A golden cricket lives in it, listen;
a tiny blue loom.”
― Richard Cronshey, The Snow and the Snow