“Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”

– Robert Frost… Read the rest

“Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now. Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes … Read the rest

“That we rode harder into the wind,
That the story got told,
That the broken candies were eaten first,
That they were eaten last,
That all subjects grew extinct eventually,
That in the inn I ruined our lives,
That in the barn I tried to save them,
That I failed,… Read the rest

“You can tell so much

about a person

by the way

they leave you”

And sometimes it is
loss

that we lose,

and sometimes

it is just lips. When I was

a child, I would ask my mother

to tuck me

in, wrap me tight in blankets,

make me into a burrito.

Sometimes I would wait in bed,

pressing my body stiff, like a

“The exquisite pain of wanting someone that you know you can never have, and knowing that you will still try to be with them.”

Don’t I know it.… Read the rest