This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

The world was floods above and fire below

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows

...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.