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“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

—	William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury

Coming In From Outside

Coming In From Outside

I cannot find my way through the house, 
clothes, dishes, perfect words,
all hidden behind some cobweb. 
The rooms are uncanny, 
and I feel like an illegal immigrant, 
lost in an language I have never heard. 
Some door shuts, noise from a TV 
floats through the halls. 
I fall into bed and stare at nothing, 
my heart beating, my feet cool and bare,
with a single blade of grass between two toes. 

Who knows what I have left outside?

Old Natchez Trace near Port Gibson MS

I am going to go here, soon. Very soon.

P.S. (June 2016) I went! It was lovely.

A fork in the road?

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

                                         from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost