“. . . This is not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roads familiar in the forest, by which we can retrace our steps, by which we can escape by which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .” TimeDisappointmentCantEscapingFutilityRememberingInevitabilityRemembering The PastReturningRetraceReclaiming Book:paulinskill hours and other poems Source: paulinskill hours and other poems
“. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonement finite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preserving will not permit forgetting; destroying only when we can no longer beg or argue with time to preserve the brief benisons a few moments longer than our sins” TimeSorrowPreservationBlessingsForgettingAtonementRememberingRenunciationInevitabilitySinsPleading Book:paulinskill hours and other poems Source: paulinskill hours and other poems