“ Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it. ”
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
~ Mark Doty
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.
...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...
To tell a story is to take power over it.
