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That timeI thought I could notgo any closer to griefwithout dyingI went closer,and I did not die.Surely Godhad his hand in this,as well as friends.Still, I was bent,and my laughter,as the poet said,was nowhere to be found.Then said my friend Daniel,(brave even among lions),“It’s not the weight you carrybut how […]

My song has always been love.

I am standing in Time Square, in a side street, looking up. The tops of the buildings are sitting in clouds; they rise up and disappear, their outlines like jagged glass against smoke.  All that noise, and all that sound,All those places I got foundAnd birds go flying at the […]

I am sitting in a coffee shop one rainy afternoon opposite the apartment. I send messages home on my phone. Drink the bitter drink that I refuse to put enough sugar in to make palatable. I need a new metro card. $30 for the week. I need airtime too. This […]