austere, I mean eau claire, wisconsin

a dying ember

When all the moments warmly stored within your winter shed
are cast across the landscape of your mind
in a flurried snowfall
every memory a snowflake
a warm crackling cinder turned cold by the wind
you will see your memories melt before you as they touch
their concrete death.

"You came to me this morning
and you handled me like meat.
You'd have to be a man to know
how good that feels, how sweet.
My mirror twin, my next of kin,
I'd know you in my sleep.
And who but you would take me in
a thousand kisses deep?"
- LC

Dead people in my dreams and people I am dead to. Running backwards. A la recherche du temps perdu.
Cheers to friends that have gone away. And apologies to those I've gone away from.

If only life were not an ocean whose relentless tide serves to scatter us across its boundless face and submerge us, solo, within its dark depths.

Life is the struggle of drowning.

My mom only gets one shot at being a mom. My sister only gets one shot at being a sister. My brother, only one shot at being a brother.

And so on and so on.

I desire to make them feel special.

Great Moments In 20th Century Literature

"Joy and sadness come by turns, I know now. Beauty and bravery make you sad, Sharon's bravery and my aunt's bravery, and victory breaks your heart... It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh." - Walker Percy

Obama should introduce a bill that raises only Donald Trump's taxes.

I would laugh for the rest of my life.

I heard my new niece's voice for the first time today.

Apparently my nephew walked into a room, saw her naked, and said that she has a weird wee wee.