Nearly Here

word becomes phrase image-thought edifice comes tumbling pure nonsense live between swells breath longing carries loving forward Philosophy, Lou thought and so did Cornelius, had trivialized itself right out of the ballpark. Nothing rose to plug the gap, to address what some called "ultimate concerns," unless you count the arts, the arts that lacked both epistemological methods and accountability, and that drew nutty people, or drove them nuts. (Annie Dillard, "The Maytrees") peanut butter honey whole grain sandwich cottage cheese yummy tomato orange juice good book sunny day duet fall nearly here