Epithets

And the proper care and handling of what lives.

dew on fresh leaves of succulent plant

Into nature’s wordless sorrow, the naming tongue limps in abstraction, not to notice shadow of bruise across face or subtle song but into a deluge of earlier questions condensed at altitude to rain theories of endings, too many to count.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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