I just came across…
Current mood: peaceful
Habitation
Marriage is not
a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn
the edge of the receding glacier
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far
we are learning to make fire.
–Margaret […]
By evening the wind was still increasing.
The sea was gathering itself up in towering masses that rolled from the horizon, trailing ghostly wads of foam. The sight of these enormous rollers and their fragile, attendant spindrift hypnotized Browne.
He had never been out to sea before and never heard such wind. The boat felt as though […]
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn’t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Your spouse and children need not get in its way, because the dream is within you. No […]
My mind works
quickly and well these days
and I like the look of myself of late:
a little more meat
around the face, a little more bite
at the back of the lungs,
a little more point to the tip of the tongue -
no wonder I’ve been smiling
like a melon with the slice missing.
At twenty eight
I’m not doing great,
but considering […]
© 2008
Jeff Foster