Lillian
January 26, 2025•111 words
The starling dusk swarms the loping sun as walking through memories of her yard I wander deeper and as deeper I become all the moments made of flowers and trees unspool like the world as a ball of yarn unraveling then raveling again apart then together everything into a conflation of winter and summer and shadow and shade all as the same moment and in that moment lilacs bloom desperately in the starlight like tiny cobalt fires starving on the sweet sap of moonlight. Then the snow makes all the flowers bloom.
--Untitled (or Lillian), written sometime between 2011 and 2014. Originally published on a now-deleted social media profile. Archived here.