Quotes from Jay Wright

love will go down as the fear of divination, or the source of continuity within divinity.

You are always in the beginning of some prophecy that you will not believe to save your life. You travel in cities that travel in you, lost in the ache of knowing none.

These spires above my house are doves, lifted by grace above the earth's eruption.

We could go up to the top of the hill, and restructure our entrance, do away with the contradiction of being nowhere but here, the assumed proportion of a presence that will always escape, of being nowhere but near the presumed indifference that solicits our wakefulness. Day begins its indiscreet translation once again, flowing through the pearl white of loss, or the indelible deep blue of fractured words. Remove emptiness. Replace nothing.

This morning chases a scattered rhyme; this moment flows toward its ambivalent source.

What voice have I borrowed to express a necessary silence?

This body feels chambered by all that has escaped a constellation of intent, only, perhaps, the brightest intent of a star, a piping fish, endangered by troubled air. From breath to breath, the world is disfigured, reconstructed, let go.

I have been a faithful son of the abyss, one who curdles when my drum calls. My singing is a coarse cloth on a desert floor.