Resilience

Resilience (2011). Pencil on handmade paper, edition of 10, 5.5 x 4.25 x 0.75″ closed. Various collections.

Resilience

There are the famous words about

your one wild and precious life*

*Mary Oliver

and those about how

life is like getting into a boat that’s just
about to sail out to sea and sink.*

*Shunryu Suzuki

There are words,
words,
so many words.

So many words in the world.

Yet, when you are laying in bed
deciding if it is best for the

hot tears

to run into your ears or onto your pillow,

more than words course through your body.

hot tears

Then you pick up the pencil

tear

and return to words.