early fall—beginnings and endings
photo by Sylvia
Early Fall
Tag Archives: nature
On tables
Excerpt: Woodswoman
“Life seems to have no beginning and no ending. Only the steady expansion of trunk and root, the slow pileup of duff and debris, the lap of water before it becomes ice, the patter of raindrops before they turn to snowflakes.”
from Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille, 1976
again
through the labyrinth of time,
the chasms between now and then,
prairies of centuries rolling ever onward—
I have loved you, again and again
Stone
and just like that,
hearts turn to stone
Some words from Basho
Amidst the splendor of the scene,
and the silence
I was filled with a wonderful peace.
–Basho
from Morning Mist
Thoreau and Basho Through the Seasons by Mary Kullberg, 1993
The Moth
10 to 30 days are lived in the moment, by the minute–
until the end of time
photo by Guinevere Stearns
Lyrics: Imaginary
Paper flowers
Paper flowers
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops as they’re falling tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby (Flowers)
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me (Flowers)
Don’t say I’m out of touch
With this rampant chaos, your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I build my own world to escape
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby (Flowers)
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me (Flowers)
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent lies
Oh, how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
from the song Imaginary by Evanescence, 2000
Drowned
drowned—
in the shallow silence
Walks in May (in images)
spanishwoods 