He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.

Who is so fancy, esoterica saves the day?Who is the Yogi, Namaste?

I wonder what became of you, your JohnnyRotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.

There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage.

You think it’s a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.

...we’re not even really hiking, more like meandering in cinematic light.

Time’s relativity is considered and abandoned, for the more revelatory experiences of starlightin strands, and pearly floors that span as far as absolute compassion...

...you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all.

Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?

Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.

I write for pages, get lost in the mezzaninehidden from stages.

if all of life were an illusion then the instruments science would use to measure reality could not be depended upon.

My mom would still be mad if I didn't say 'please' and 'thank you.'

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.

While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.

And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.