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The rain gives way to blossoms and blossoms give way to snow that never drifts but scatters. In this way now the weather intervenes; the legacy of a child’s breath upon a popsicle. With only one hand on the steering wheel we still find it hard to let go our designs; a glance in the mirror of a mirage, of carnage? The territory swallows us all the same, only the precision of the map is at stake: how well the landscape bends to the road. To be lost in this world and not afraid is a skill we have yet to remember; to master life in the ruin of life: life dissembling in the rings of the ash tree. What looks like rot is just the caterpillar giving way to the nascent butterfly but not like your smile gives way, breaks, before the latest tyrant.
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Jun 19, 2016
Jun 19, 2016 at 8:59 AM UTC
Divine Comedy?
The rain gives way to blossoms and blossoms give way to snow that never drifts but scatters. In this way now the weather intervenes; the legacy of a child’s breath upon a popsicle. With only one hand on the steering wheel we still find it hard to let go our designs; a glance in the mirror of a mirage, of carnage? The territory swallows us all the same, only the precision of the map is at stake: how well the landscape bends to the road. To be lost in this world and not afraid is a skill we have yet to remember; to master life in the ruin of life: life dissembling in the rings of the ash tree. What looks like rot is just the caterpillar giving way to the nascent butterfly but not like your smile gives way, breaks, before the latest tyrant.
after reading 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost' by Rebecca Solnit
simon-leake
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Jun 19, 2016
Jun 19, 2016 at 8:59 AM UTC
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