January 2009
9 posts
“Between 50 billion and 70 billion cells die each day due to apoptosis in the...”
– Wikipedia article on apoptosis
Practice
by Ellen Bryant Voigt
To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face of the clock to twitch again, moving the dumb day forward— is this merely practice? Some believe in heaven, some in rest. We’ll float, you said. Afterward we’ll float between two worlds— five bronze beetles stacked like spoons in one peony blossom, drugged by lust: if I came back as a...
Bach, Fugue no. 8 in D# Minor, Book II of...
