to capture for a lifetime what in moments catches on to put to paper what it was about that song homemade magnetic tapes for all the people that you love for purity or bravery or grace or just because that s what a heart does the echoes encompassing us and i feel a strange prehension that is much bigger than me a shadow falls ahead so far i fail to see and at times i d like a map to what i cannot comprehend but infinite cartographer your trusted magic pen can only ink against the edge of understanding yeah you always draw me on along questions compounding but family and friends their thoughts therein will interject and oh to feel the strength in all the places they connect there s times we ve spoken cryptically and times we ve been direct sometimes we speak so cyclically sometimes we hold our breath and see that presence sets the stage for conversation or simply say what it must say with its intention and so we start to feel we shouldn t be so scared we see this understanding as the only thing that s there there s feelings you must overcome and feelings you must use and strengthened by a timeless love that you must never lose it s born of ancestry and poetry and chemistry horizon lines volume and infinity for now we focus on whatever comes to mind a slow progression though a tender one we find the sun against a face some hot ohio afternoon a timeless sense of place among the relics in my room a low hanging amber melon of a moon we can stop and sleep and plan the next day soon1