Last night Quote by Richard Jackson

“Last night, the stars on the water were trap doors. The crows with their charred wings are complaining to a hawk. It’s time to pack up the sunsets the dawns and move on.” quote by Richard Jackson — Download Open image

““Last night, the stars on the water were trap doors. The crows with their charred wings are complaining to a hawk. It’s time to pack up the sunsets the dawns and move on.””

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“Light staggers through the trees. Every moment is filled with other moments.”

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“I don’t want to see you caught like a word in that last line. What does the nightingale do when it runs out of things to say? Only this: I have never been so astonished at the love of one woman which is the way the moon finally closes its eye behind a ridge, the way the wind never stays…

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“I have only these words that seem as if they climbed up from the bottom of a dry well.”

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