ah! sunflower

Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun:
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the travellers journey is done.
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:
Arise from their graves and aspire,
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go. 

--William Blake

gasoline

marvel

...bring your marvel into yourself where it is anyway, your child you have too long tried to force upon the poor, assaulted objects of the world.
-Jason Sidwell

the ride

entering

...what happens next

Is undiminished for having happened once,

Twice, ten, a thousand times before.

Who cares if all the music that transpires

Is the fall of grit or dry seeds through a cactus?

You are like a rich man entering heaven

Through the ear of a raindrop. Listen now again.

-Seamus Heaney, from The Rainstick

in honor, courtesy poetryeater

collection

the river knows your name

chain

A subtle chain of countless rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
The eye reads omens where it goes,
And speaks all languages the rose;
And, striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson