What Is It Like Up there?
What is it like up there
above the shut-off level
of our simple ears?
~ Lisa Mueller
We Heard Nothing
What is it like up there
above the shut-off level
of our simple ears?
~ Lisel Mueller
Totally Insane with Joy
"When someone you love walks through the door, even if it happens five times a day, you should go totally insane with joy."
The Silence is All
"You prepare for one sorrow,
but another comes.
It is not like the weather,
you cannot brace yourself,
the unreadiness is all."
~ Derek Walcott
Making a Gate
“If you made a list of all the dogs you have ever known, how many dogs would be on your list? If you look at your list you may find dogs, not forgotten, but not remembered either until you called them with your pen. Where were they waiting? Why have they stayed, willing to be unthought, unpictured until now? Some of them have been gone a very long time."
~ Lynda Barry
Loving the Sinner
Remember when you had to ask
to be dropped from the diving board
into the paralyzing uncertainty
of the cobalt water?
Remember how you were always running to the library
to run you finger along the spines of
what had already been written about
something you just heard?