more distant and more solemn

      Here are some lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”:   Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death’s dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind’s singing More distant and more

Lean into me

Starlight and Saguaros –  photo by Greg McCown   Culture and the Universe   By Simon J. Ortiz   Two nights ago in the canyon darkness, only the half-moon and stars, only mere men. Prayer, faith, love, existence. We are measured by vastness beyond ourselves. Dark is light. Stone is rising.   I don’t know