Courage Friends

I'm digging in the dirt today. Soil. And a little swirl of wind walks by. Up the path of straw and through some leaves by the compost pile. That reminds me somehow of that little snake I photographed earlier. How he smiled in the spring sun: on last years dead dry grass. I miss that sun now and the snake too, now that the night hides them like the grass when the snake slid off into it.

Now it all has to mean something; and can again, since we've given up on that it must. The sweat drops fell from my face after what seems like a long perspiration free winter. There was a time when they tended towards a globe as they fell. Like raindrops to the soil. If anyone asks you why, just smile sweetly and close your mouth against the secret. To bluff is what we can offer. But it's a real bluff, eh?

Know the Thrill

Repeated application of the same method, both homogenizes and clarifies the referent qualities: whos presence is the resulting organization of the methods application. There are many ways for a process to be carried out on the language. Sometimes repetition increases the desired effect, others not. To take out every letter, one at a time, and shine it up with a terry cloth till it sparkles in the sun. Use a screwdriver to scrape the gunk out of the tight spaces in ws, ys, ks, xs and vs. Once the text is all cleaned up the words could be mounted on white oak shields, stained, polyurethaned and hung over the mantel like deer head trophies. Why not? I'm not so sure that it's not important that the text be molded and fired in terra cotta clay. This way the meaning would be more solid and the words have more weight. These words might be used as Christmas gifts and produce brief discomfortable pauses and later unsure action. They could read "What I always wanted". They could be. What they said?

There is a part of the process that settles dust on the spiderweb. It is rendered useless on account of its sticky being all filled up but now we know where it is and can mention it's describable parts. So we can say some verifiable things about what was.

The spider somewhere spins
What will tomorrow thrill
A connoisseur's on pins
And needles someday kills