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  1. This Moment – Lost

    a thought of beauty strikes me
    and I must express it so

    but as I reach to grasp it
    it flutters away,

    a moth,
    a feather,
    a small white bird
    startled by the motion
    of my wanting.

    my hand closes
    around nothing,

    void,

    and I stand there
    foolish with longing,
    as if the air itself
    had promised me a gift
    then taken it back.

    and I weep
    for the passing moment.

    it will never come again.

    not in that light,
    not with that breath,
    not with the same small door
    opened briefly
    between the soul
    and the world.

    May 8, 1987 (age 19) (Expanded and updated June 2026)

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  2. The Self

    A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]

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