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Archive for November, 2006

The Thing Is

The thing is
to love life
to love it even when you have no
stomach for it, when everything that you’ve held
dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands
and your throat is filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you so heavily
it is like heat, tropical, moist
thickening the air so it’s heavy like water
more fit for [...]

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I have always had a fascination with porcupines. I don’t know why. This one I just want to hug.

Wasps on the other hand are the flip side of a porcupine. True they have sharp bits, but they work tirelessly to build a home that will only by [...]

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It has been quite a while since I last wrote. Although I could list of a diatribe of reasons (all of them very good ) I will not because it is not important why I haven’t but why I am now. I feel that I am on the right track to [...]

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