“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing
(whatever it is) that glitters on the Earth — we call it life.
We know no other.”
— Anne Carson.
frequencies.
“…In plays and poems someone understands
there’s something makes us more than blood and bone
and more than biological demands…”
— Neil Gaiman
south carolina.
They have palmetto trees up north of the Florida state line:
their trunks are watchful. It always feels like taller
trees have more wisdom than others. Maybe it’s just because
they’re lonelier. Or maybe I am seeing a heated mirage.