Monday, August 24, 2015

Corporeal Mist

The partition separating
life from death is
so tenuous.

The unbelievable fragility
of our organism suggests
a vision on a screen:

a kind of mist condenses itself
into
a human shape,

lasts a moment, and
scatters.

- Czeslaw Milosz
(found in The Sun, Sunbeam, August 2015 | Issue 476)

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