Well Water
What a girl called “the dailiness of life
(Adding an errand to your errand. Saying,
“Since you’re up …” Making you a means to
A means to a means to) is well water
Pumped from an old well at the bottom of the world.
The pump you pump the water from is rusty
And hard to move and absurd, a squirrel-wheel
A sick squirrel turns slowly, through the sunny
Inexorable hours. And yet sometimes
The wheel turns of its own weight, the rusty
Pump pumps over your sweating face the clear
Water, cold, so cold! you cup your hands
And gulp from them the dailiness of life.
-Randall Jarrell
You’ll get the chance to take the world apart and figure out how it works
Don’t let me know what you find out
-car, built to spill
“your life is stories that you fake / and rake like leaves behind you”
A Wrinkle in Time. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Photo and caption by Nikki Krecicki)
(via The Big Picture, from the National Geographic 2010 photo contest)
Change
- Delirium: Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it...the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?
- Ruby: Beats me, hon.
- Dream: Change.
- Delirium: Oh. I was afraid of that.
(via thxthxthx, a really great blog that you should go read whenever you’re feeling down)
