417: what got me here won’t get me there

colors canvas paper brush the long sweep of hog-bristle touched with bits of bitumen delight awe wonder disbelief leading a tangled course across blank page until order falls away begins again starts anew pen ink paper hope tied up in years experience nestled...

416: Marta made it

the extra space up the space where punctuation taught in grammar school grandmother rapped knuckles to comply an extra space where once a comma a period perhaps or maybe a semicolon if you were brave would sit I myself left nothing no period none of that comma and...

415: it is of my nature

that’s what the research suggests long hours and years spent diving into things that will tell me the truth How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? isn’t that then really living? to answer that question...

414: so I am here

today ends the travel two months I’ll be here or the area around here calling it home making it mine filling the corners and edges with dog hair and love I already feel it the joy gratitude I believe this is a force it goes out from my heart that’s...

413: reverent silence

even the dog did not give her usual disturbance such was the sense the flowers newly blooming too felt it seemingly kneeling to bow alongside the trembling hand the tapping clawed feet