they understand death better than we, a sense of beginning, middle, and end which they regard with passionless aplomb. - Jim Harrison

There have been mutterings that the whole food thing has gone too far in America, but I think not. Good food is a benign weapon against the sodden way we live.

Of course he wasn’t listening to what I said but to all of his imagined resonances of what I said.

(from: Age Sixty-nine)
Often, lately, the night is a cold maw
and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand
yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.