We think of life as solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid. Old Heraclitus couldn't have stepped in the same river once, let alone tw… - Jim Harrison

I’m hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don’t know what:
not the usual undiscovered bird in the cold
snowy willows, garishly green and yellow

What could it be, this astonishment,
but falling into a liquid mirror
to finally understand that the purpose
of earth is earth? It’s plain as night.
She’s willing to sleep with us a little while.

I followed all the rules - man's and God's. And you... followed none of them and they all loved you more

"Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right."