21 junho, 2026

Palavras lidas #650

The Disappearing
by Franz Wright

There is a heartbreaking beauty
about my crummy street
tonight, at 2 o’clock
in the first snow: I stand looking out

at this window, I think
how everything seen
is something seen for the last time.
At last I turn away,

I give up. I am tired,
I can’t mourn anymore
the loss of what I never asked for
and never understood.
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In the middle of the latest sweltering heatwave in the UK I caught myself thinking of snow...

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