How We Are Spared
- W.S. Merwin
At midsummer before dawn an orange light returns to the mountains
Like a great weight and small birds cry out
And bear it up

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How We Are Spared
On blue December mornings snow piles heavy against our thin oak door
Until it groans and later the lurching plow grumbles forth
And sets us free

How We Are Spared
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it's been a long time since i've written in here and i treat it like a bad sign. i read through about a year's worth of entries tonight and my god i am an embarassing culmination at this point. i think shane was saying this after reading his old term papers last year in tahoe, but fuck i used to be a lot smarter ( Read more... )

i just realized that i really grow to share other people's bad habits, but are they 'bad habits' because i think they're bad or because other people make me think that they're bad?

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i just saw this scrolling thing on the bible network that said 'pray for the election ( Read more... )

it would be sweet if people could just give their opinions on a couple of things ( Read more... )

MEREDITH:

i dont have your screen name plz post all your pictures from THE EPIC LIFE here or send them on aim to me 'tylandras' thanks you are a great person.

love,
jeff

when i was a small child i played a lot of video games. at one point, i started naming all my protagonists 'cyber'. until today, i could not remember why i picked that name, or where it came from. recently i came back from tahoe where i retrieved my super nintendo and brought i back to my home in marin. there was one game that i remember playing as ( Read more... )