"....what will deliverance, versus what we have wished for, turn out to have been really?...."

--Carl Phillips

"....some debilitating shyness on my part ( Read more... )

SMALL KINDNESSESSI’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk ( Read more... )

SULLY: SIXTEEN MONTHSOne more thing to keep:my ( Read more... )

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"sharing the inner world....[One] demonstrates attunement by responding in another medium. By translating the same affective level into another modality--for example, from kinetic to vocal--[one] conveys the crucial fact that it is the inner experience that is congruent. The difference in form makes the element of similarity or sharing clear. I ( Read more... )

TO TONY (AGED 3)(In Memory T.P.C.W ( Read more... )

RAIN

Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgiveable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

-Raymond Carver

I CATCH MICHELLE EATING DRIED FIGSI catch Michelle eating dried figs in the kitchen, and I make a face at her and say figs are gross and dried ( Read more... )

THE UNDRESSING DAY

I dreamed the tangled crush of magic peels
in the wax leaves made a spell of bones,
and everything bloomed big and better than
before. Beyond the barbed wire, beyond
this fence of angry fists there's a breathing,
there's a breathing underwater. Love
the body bending, the useless hair,
the when of the skin, the when of the wrist ( Read more... )