“Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.”

“Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.”

“The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.”

“When I dreamed about flying,it was as a skillI needed to regain. ”

“As a child, I was abandonedin a storymade of trees.Here’s the smallgaspof this clearingcome “upon” “again”

“Ends Meet1Could betime is practice,balance,the actionexecuted in the mindbefore and after.Where does mind end?2We mark a breakwith what has come before,come through the door,down the hatch.Not a clean breakexactly.3Our life was rehearsal,Mother almost saidso that we believedwe would escort herto the futurewhere she could be happy.”

“SimpleComplex systems can arisefrom simple rules.It's notthat we want to survive,it's that we've been druggedand made to actas if we dowhile all the whilethe sea breaksand rolls, painlessly, under.If we're not copying it,we're lonely.Is this the knowledgethat demands to bepassed down?Time is made from swatchesof heaven and hell.If we're not killing it,we're hungry.”