On Knowing

Notes from the grandmothers.

selective focus photography of brown feather

Hold in the mind the feathered whisper of something almost touched, but not. Resist the urge to offer up a salve to stop the itch. And let her volume erupt, and stay while she splits her seams, threatening to tear each hemisphere from the other.  Don’t bind. Don’t apply ice to stop the swelling. What do you expect can be born otherwise? These are wonders. It’s when these terrible discomforts leave, and the mind rests sated and full of itself that the subject is really in trouble. 

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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