Poetry At Its Best Is

Perhaps When We Die Our Names Are Takenfrom Us By A Divine Magnet And Are Freeto Flutter Here And There Within The Bodies Of Birds.i'll Be A Simple Crowwho Can Reach The Top Of Antelope Butte.(from: Hard Times)

Suits Obviously Had Helped To Promote Bad Government And He Was As Guilty As Anyone For Wearing Them So Steadfastly For Twenty Years. Of Late He Had Become Frightened Of The Government For The First Time In His Life, The Way The Structure Of Democracy Had Begun Debasing People Rather Than Enlivening Them In Their Mutual Concern. The Structure Was No Longer Concerned With The Purpose For Which It Was Designed, And A Small Part Of The Cause, Nordstrom Thought, Was Probably That All Politicians And Bureaucrats Wore Suits.

Death Steals Everything Except Our Stories.

It Is Easy To Forget That In The Main We Die Only Seven Times More Slowly Than Our Dogs.

Naturally We Would Prefer Seven Epiphanies A Day And An Earth Not So Apparently Devoid Of Angels.