The word
is bear: you give and give, you empty yourself
into something or someone. And you survive
the automatic loss. Against inhuman landscape,
the tree remains a figure for grief; its form
is forced accommodation.
Louise Glück (from Autumnal)
Notes:
Psychological reactance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)
RE: STACKS (Bon Iver Piano Cover) played by Klara Louise
Glück reading from The Garden: https://voca.arizona.edu/content/louise-gl%C3%BCck