July 2010
from "Tree Baby" by Margaret Atwood
“You remember this. No, you dreamed it. Your dream was of choking, and sinking down, and blankness. You woke from your nightmare and it had already happened. Everything was gone. Everything, and everyone – fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, the cousins, the tables and chairs and toys and beds – all swept away. Nothing is left of them. Nothing remains but the erased beach and the silence. ...
“Then I came to an edge of very calm
But couldn’t stay there. It was the washed...”
– And water lies plainly | Laurie Sheck
Perfection.
wolf-like-me:
missdimanson:
“Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove,
If you wish, twenty years, and...”
– The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles | A.E. Stallings
someone has been inside my head →
“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been...”
– The Sciences Sing A Lullaby | Albert Goldbarth
“But you were young, and you had
Plenty of time:
Going west,
You slept on the...”
– The Spirit Says You Are Nothing | Larry Levin
