i tried to pray today
i told her to close her eyes and just sleep
crows feet
O, stinging stung
a holi ganges runs north
fieryeyed ferryman south
and that burnt oar’s horizontal
splash
truenorthavenue: "In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, Simplify." h.d. Thoreau