“The days are stacked against what we think we are.”

“Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)”

“We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. ”

“I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.”

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”

“My heart must open to the cosmos with no langauage unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.”

“Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)”