The sound of a dog splashing about in the creek. Not like a boy, not like a fish, but like Ben, precisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am mad, as the saying goes, for the music of Schumann and Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The shriek, then the happiness of the drawn nail. How it blinks again, in the sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world spins, doesn’t it? Change rules the universe, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s life and there’s opera, and I want both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ben, circling through the fields. He has a whole university in his nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Shelleys. They lived in the burn of ideals. They lived with awful fate lurking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The spider: out of the sink, into the geraniums. Then I forget and water the geraniums vigorously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why not believe in the goldfinches. The thistles, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While I watched, the fly went into Ben’s snapping mouth, then, out again. Then, in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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