all of creation is groaning

Hill Aspecting No.3

The hills are bare and cold and brown,

on the tree no leaf is found,

the rounded stones from riverbeds,

groan beneath the tire treads.

No misreckoning of trajectory,

of slope and grade or inclemency -

We saw this message right on time,

on the hillside in the night.

Pie in the Sky

"Nothing is fucked here, Dude."


- Walter Sobchak
The Big Lebowski, 1998

New Years Asheville

the habit forming pain

I was returning my brother Mike's car to his house this past sunday,
he was having it repaired at the Pep Boys across the street from our house.
i was walking down the block towards his house, turns out i was crying,
i thought it was the cold.
the sun was going down, and the superbowl was going to start in a bit but I slowed my roll.
I tried to clear it with a sigh, took a picture of it.
I liked the way the sun was going down over the church in the background.
had to be there.

"the habit forming pain, mismanagement and grief: we must suffer them all again."

- W.H. Auden