You Rock, Never Change

That Will to Divest

- Kay Ryan

Action creates
a taste
for itself.
Meaning: once
you’ve swept
the shelves
of spoons
and plates
you kept
for guests,
it gets harder
not to also
simplify the larder,
not to dismiss
rooms, not to
divest yourself
of all the chairs
but one, not
to test what
singleness can bear,
once you’ve begun.  

Oh, Jerry! (Clearly I can’t sleep)

istI would like to go into the woods and do such things.

One of my favorite songs. 

Sarah Vaughan has an amazingly beautiful voice. For awhile I listened to one of her CDs every time I drove anywhere and consequently every other singer I will ever listen to again sounds terrible. That’s not entirely true but they don’t come much better than this.