Poetry

“I find “this is it” too vulgar to accept

So I wait for a new starting point

As though life will begin there and then.”

“Does meaning emerge

Assertively and without invitation?

The task is to live well enough with you.

But how? How do you know what you want

If you don’t tell you? If you don’t hear you?”

—Charif Shanahan, While I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who Love Me