notes from a creative life …
Go out into the world:
Go! Yes, you — though you are fearful and fragile and small.
Go broken-winged and bent-boned and beauty-starved… Lovesick. Stardrunk. Skydizzy.
Or go sharp-eyed and sober, if that’s how it is — the hunger for the light a clenched fist in your stomach …
oh, Lord, leave me …
… undone.
heal me, but don’t –
(forgive me
for saying it) …
i smooth my soulinto somethingalmost like silence: the river at rest is the one that reflects the sky. ❤
… to speak the song the cicadas are singing —that murmur and hum filling the trees.But their song is wholly their own,and no matter what words I use,mine would only be a poor copy —and why bother to copy such a thing,when anyone can go out on a summer nightand sit spellbound to the soundof the original? But […]
ASHLEY WILSON FELLERS 