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

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

“this route is only one of several imaginary paths.”

“Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.”

“Proscenium of nearly identical mountain ridges, arched out and downward, one 'after' another, to the valley floor: curtains tied back, a gesture”

“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.”

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