I find this very apt to start the new year. Very special thanks to my friend G who found it and gave it to me along with a gorgeous set of gifts ;-) Beyond this I say nothing further.
What's in My Journal
by William Stafford
Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean
things, fishhooks, barbs in your hand.
But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable.
Junkyard crucifixes, voluptuous
discards. Space for knickknacks, and for
Alaska. Evidence to hang me, or to beatify.
Clues that lead nowhere, that never connected
anyway. Deliberate obfuscation, the kind
that takes genius. Chasms in character.
Loud omissions. Mornings that yawn above
a new grave. Pages you know exist
but you can't find them. Someone's terribly
inevitable life story, maybe mind.
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Beautiful!
the contessa
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