Stretching the Truth
Russian Pre-Ballet Conditioning, the flyer on the dorm
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” –John Updike
This week I am scheduled to run twenty-two miles. It s
“I would not have been a poet
except that I have been in love
alive in this mortal world,
or an essayist except that I
have been bewildered and afraid,
or a storyteller had I not heard
stories passing to me through the air,
or a writer at all except
I have been wakeful at night
and words have come to me
out of their deep caves
needing to be remembered.”