Adapted from an email to my college writing friends.
Monday, June 1st, 2020, 1:25pm
/ Photographed for the artist, Eleanor-Scott Davis. /
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of nothing
but listening,
trying to find a way through this
riot of colour.
I’m unsure of everything
except the steps
will be small at first:
Listen,
learn, lament.
Pray, pray,
pray.
Act, act,
act.
Is there any way to begin
again
than calling forth the mass
of all we’ve lived and lost,
laying it bare
for one another,
one oath
in front of
the other?