threads
Where they meet
Not a comparison chart. A weather system. Love, now, the veil, death, the body, the earth, service, grace, the map — the same rain falling on different roofs.
Love
Not the bargain. The thing that gathers until it has nowhere left to stand outside.
12 on the shelf
Now
The only room that was never locked. We keep looking for the key anyway.
16 on the shelf
The Veil
A fold of story we took for a wall. Thinner than it feels, once you stop decorating it.
37 on the shelf
Death
The teacher who does not need a syllabus. The river that opens the heart we boarded up.
7 on the shelf
The Body
Temple, tree, ladder, grail. The story was never only happening on a page.
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Earth
All matter matters, and nothing matters, and the mountain does not need that resolved.
12 on the shelf
Service
The rare ones who come back down the mountain because someone is still in the valley.
8 on the shelf
Grace
The thing that cannot be purchased and will not be forced. It arrives when the fist opens.
9 on the shelf
The Map
The drawing is not the land. The word is not the thing. Attention decides which world you inhabit.
13 on the shelf