Afraid of the future, disappointed in the past, the present as elusive as a just world.
I ran to a Spanish desert from cruelty, injustice, people, fled with my sense of helplessness, ineffectualness, meaninglessness. Intimidated by hate. Afraid of civilization’s monsters. Ashamed that I am not David or anyone at all. That I am vulnerable and tired. I cower in solitude. A child looking through a crack in a door as adults fight and the mean adult pushes the weaker, kinder adult against the hard edge of a suffocating knee, and going down the kinder adult, the gentle giant, takes the sheets and drapes and comforter and all the murdered innocents along. A flimsy torn, tired piece of cotton catches a candle’s flame. Fire crackles, cracks like a breaking windpipe, and consumes the room. My hair catches fire as I watch the room burn, my daughter’s room, her grandmother’s room, her father’s room, her granddaughter’s room. The desert around me, dry and dark, is ready to burn as well. For hope, the house comes down.
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Not really a BiographyI have always been inclined to move forward, roll the stone, down, and often up, hills. I've tried to write through it all. Everything on this blog is written by me. Archives
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