“Today, like every other day,

        we wake up empty and frightened.

Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.

Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways

            to kneel and kiss the ground.”

“Keep walking

            Though there’s no place to get to.

Don’t try to see through the distances.

That’s not for human beings.

Move within

            but don’t move

                    The way that fear makes you move.”