August 2012
10 posts
3 tags
“Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of...”
– Gustave Flaubert (to Louise Colet)
July 2012
4 posts
6 tags
a house in need of fire
Fires begin when winds change direction
Until then, she bleeds through the floors in this place she calls safe.
This space, with its seven bare walls, nine empty rooms
and eleven dead rose bushes,
should’ve come with a notice of condemnation
Instead, she waits for the wind.
The desire to protect
is sometimes much greater
than the need to burn. To bury history
But this house was...
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A vacation unfit for the lonely business of...
The lonely business of butterflies
turns nature into profit,
A slow turning of two singular wings
that give way to a dance of passion.
A not quite two month dance
that occupies the same southward course
marked by a thousand years of weather,
yet highlighted by the hope for a warm Baja sun,
but sadly ending before the sun sets.
If only we could learn to live as the butterflies do,
in...
