“It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.”

—Simone Weil

They call it sounding
when a whale dives,
and the tail comes out of the water
and flashes in the light
before going under.

––Jane Kenyon

I’ve lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door.
It opens. I've been knocking from the inside!

––Rumi