The long silences need to be loved, perhaps
more than the words
which arrive
to describe them
in time.
—Franz Wright, from section II of “East Boston, 1996” in God’s Silence (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
The long silences need to be loved, perhaps
more than the words
which arrive
to describe them
in time.
—Franz Wright, from section II of “East Boston, 1996” in God’s Silence (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
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