December 2010
25 posts
Happy New Year (soon)
I want to bake a celebratory apple cake for the house
but all the recipes require a bundt cake pan
(which is an extravagant purchase)
when i already have a round cake tray.
Happy New Year nonetheless!
i saw the wind softly lift the leaf as if
for me to peer at its underside, almost as to
release a secret back into the air,
where it is kept buoyant.
but that was last spring, when there
were leaves, not needles attached to wired branches, not chill
to shudder past all defense
not to hear the tinkle of snow like glass underfoot and
peer blearily at the bleary cold
and so this is that 3am ramble.
This is the wink and the wave, the grand sending off of a friendship and the ending of a song. This is the beginning of the end, and slowly the end is in far sight, in a foresighted turn of non-events that lead only to
goodbye,
this is the second goodbye of the last sequence of so long. Parting was once, was twice and again and again in lachrymal repetition
...
if only in my dreams
“The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy - being unrelated, uninvolved,...”
home,
home on the range
where the deer and the antelope play
where seldom is heard, a discouraging word
and the skies
are all cloudy all day
Lazarus
‘the one who God helps’.
Yeats
Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords.
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words.
‘The Fish’, W.B. Yeats
“You’ve gotta be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need...”
– Bernadette Peters
ohsigh
“My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but...”
– —1 Corinthians 2:4
