undone – Live & Learn

It’s been a long day

The body shuts down
when it has too much to bear;
goes its own way quietly inside,
waiting for a better time,
leaving you numb and half alive.

~ Jeanette Winterson, from The Passion

Notes:

Perhaps the hardest feeling
is the one
Of unrealized possibility:
Thoughts left unspoken,
actions left undone

~John Koethe, from “The Secret Amplitude,” North Point North: New and Selected Poems

Notes:

I wanted to come undone
like gold thread,
like a tent full of birds.

~ Sandra Cisneros, from “One Holy Night,” Woman Hollering Creek