Walt Whitman saw the world
with its ubiquitous beauty
laid bare.
He saw it in dock workers
& painted ladies &
swimmers & walkers &
Presidents & paupers.
He saw it in every hue &
sinew, and danced it into hymns.
Do you practice religion?
Not even a little.
I thought of starting my own, but having seen what people have done with ones founded by genuinely wise and good individuals (e.g. Buddha & Jesus,) I became preemptively disheartened about the prospects for one started by the likes of me.
license to speak
is
license to think.
the jester can say,
apparently in jest,
what he feels to be real,
and, if he does so with
sufficient linguistic dexterity
to not be murdered by the monarch,
he has fool's wisdom.
a tiny mushroom grows from a tiny twig, dropping countless spores
Do you remember life before the internet?
Yes. Travel was dicier because you just showed up in a random town and took whatever room you could find. Sometimes going door to door, making inquiries.
But people occasionally paid attention to what they were doing and to other people in their immediate vicinity, so that was kind of nice.
The reptile known as the Five-Lined Skink is silent, but not as covert as you'd think. From the front end it blends, but its bright blue back end catches the eye no matter how slowly it slinks.
light makes greens greener,
and clouds glow brightly; its lack
makes the blues bluer
"the fish's world is always in drift," thinks I, from the bank.
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