On Watching a Cloud in the Wind

how unlike

a cloud

in the wind

am I

when

what I

use

to shape

my world

my self

my god

ceases

to blow

in

the wind

*Jerry Schroeder, Cap.

Hatch

what

winged life

wants

is

to be

outside

in the open

commerce

of hearts

where 

nothing

is bought

or sold

*Jerry Schroeder, Cap.

*...the world has too much paradox in it to let the heart be one place at a time; the heart is always dreaming of someplace else.  In a foreign land, it dreams of home.  At home, it dreams of the other side of the world.  It is a haunted face.

-Janet Heyneman

*Life here in the "real world" is more complicated: work, money, danger, growing older, making peace with family.  But then I remember the profound loneliness of living as a foreigned, I'm reminded of why I came back.

*Janet Heyneman