for cassandra (post-fasti verse)

1) 'O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!'
'And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.’
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

2) 'You were especially one in need of healing. Whose inner geography levels the mind.'
— Maureen Alsop, ‘*’

3) "and I try to harmonize with songs
the lonesome sparrow sings"
— Bob Dylan, ‘Gates of Eden’

4) "I saw the lighthouse
sever the wrist of the dark
and knew I had never touched
anything."
— Sara Eliza Johnson, 'The Lighthouse Keeper'

5) "These bones are constructed in the form of aching,
and these eyes carry the burden of light."
— Serena Chopra, 'Livid Season'

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