Ghost Buffalo

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! ―   George Eliot

What Writers Can Learn from Good Night, Moon, Aimee Bender

the times it is hard to remain human on a day when birds perch weeping in the trees and the squirrel eyes do not look away but the dog ones do in pity. another child has killed a child and i catch myself relieved that they are white and i might understand except that i am tired of understanding. if these alphabets could speak their own tongue it would be all symbol surely; the cat would hunch across the long table and that would mean time is catching up, and the spindle fish would run to ground and that would mean the end is coming and the grains of dust would gather themselves along the streets and spell out these too are your children   this too is your child.  

"By ‘voice’ I don’t mean the sound breath makes when passing through the organ of the larynx. I mean the sound language makes when passing through the organ of the memory." An extraordinary essay exploring the subtleties of voice: Smartish Pace

The difficulty is not to write, but to write like no one's watching.

A word on Color: It's more like a corkscrew than a path.