How is it we have walk'd through fires and yet are not consum'd?

How is it that all things are chang'd, even as in ancient times?

(William Blake)

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,

Missing me one place search another,

I stop somewhere waiting for you.
(Walt Whitman)

i wake up early;

i scavenge through the ash for

surviving trinkets,

-- remnants, yesterthings.

i fix the ceiling,

repaint the walls,

carve new furniture.

i repair. i create.

i map out the stars

i take accurate measurements

i sit, i stand, i cook.

i refill the ocean,

i reignite the sun.