she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

A flower is a plant's way of making love.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.