/ justin dillard, writer, sunday 22 july 2012 park slope ny

/ my brother evan in our backyard, june 2012 webster ny

i have learned that you learn more about a person's character in the days following the '..i'm sorry, i don't love you' than you may have ever learned about them under other circumstances..

"..because i know that time is always time

and place is always and only place

and what is actual is actual only for one time

and only for one place

i rejoice that things are as they are and

i renounce the blessed face

and renounce the voice

because i cannot hope to turn again

consequently i rejoice, having to construct something

upon which to rejoice.."

/ from ash wednesday by ts eliot 1930

/ gabrielle in my room, fall 2011 brooklyn ny

'this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best.
night, sleep, and the stars.'


/ 'a clear midnight' by walt whitman