Love

Artwork: Nami Yokoyama, Shape of Your Words-T.K.-, Oil on linen, 2022 (LOVE written by my sister. As she makes Japanese candles, she thinks about healing, prayers, and the future.) (@namiyokoyama)

As always, Emily Dickinson’s poems strike the heart deep. I came across this randomly, and now I keep going back to it. From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little Brown, 1960; no. 809, p.394), a poem about love, immortality and the divine:

Unable are the Loved to die

For Love is Immortality

Nay, it is Deity—

Unable they that love—to die

For Love reforms Vitality

Into Divinity.