The Presentable Art of Reading Absence Quotes

“We could go up to the top of the hill,
and restructure our entrance,
do away
with the contradiction of being
nowhere but here,
the assumed proportion of a presence
that will always escape,
of being nowhere
but near
the presumed indifference
that solicits our wakefulness.
Day begins
its indiscreet translation
once again,
flowing through the pearl white of loss,
or the indelible deep blue
of fractured words.
Remove emptiness.
Replace nothing.”
― Jay Wright, The Presentable Art of Reading Absence

“love will go down as
the fear of divination,
or the source of continuity
within divinity.”
― Jay Wright, The Presentable Art of Reading Absence

“This body feels chambered by all
that has escaped
a constellation of intent,
only, perhaps,
the brightest intent of a star,
a piping fish, endangered
by troubled air.
From breath to breath,
the world is disfigured,
reconstructed,
let go.”
― Jay Wright, The Presentable Art of Reading Absence

“What voice have I borrowed
to express a necessary silence?”
― Jay Wright, The Presentable Art of Reading Absence

“This morning chases a scattered rhyme;
this moment flows toward its ambivalent source.”
― Jay Wright, The Presentable Art of Reading Absence