Tag Archives: Fall
For the bear who broke my fence
As you ready, you trouble our leavings: the forgotten feeder, the spilled seed. Your hunger accretes in the dark autumn air. Urgent. Insatiable. Hyperphagia, the scientists say. You say eat. You say drink. As you ready, you dream cubs from the world of spirit, from the world of ancestors. You dream their tiny bodies blind […]
For the bear who broke my fence
As you ready, you trouble our leavings: the forgotten feeder, the spilled seed. Your hunger accretes in the dark autumn air. Urgent. Insatiable. Hyperphagia, the scientists say. You say eat. You say drink. As you ready, you dream cubs from the world of spirit, from the world of ancestors. You dream their tiny bodies blind […]
For the bear who broke my fence
As you ready, you trouble our leavings: the forgotten feeder, the spilled seed. Your hunger accretes in the dark autumn air. Urgent. Insatiable. Hyperphagia, the scientists say. You say eat. You say drink. As you ready, you dream cubs from the world of spirit, from the world of ancestors. You dream their tiny bodies […]
Just the way you are
I recently bought for my chilly basement a heater that’s meant to imitate a fireplace. At this it fails miserably. Nonetheless, I love the earnestness of its inauthenticity: the fake logs perpetually burning but never consumed, the unnatural orange glow of the fake embers, the mesmerizing pattern of the fake flames. The unapologetic falseness of […]
Molt
Fall is my favorite season, not only because of its beauty, but because it embodies the impermanence that blesses and taxes our lives. Nothing so says loss — and yet so hints at renewal — as trees again shedding once- verdant leaves whose color now speaks of exhausted potential, of depletion. Unless, of course, it’s […]
Meditatio Ephemera 