September 15, 2026

aphorisms for safekeeping

Consider the seaweed sprawled against the boulders,
making a home even of hardness.

There are never the perfect conditions for happiness.
Even the sun is in a perpetual state of a do-over.

How the rain enters the open car window,
without a single apology.

Once, you felt the furthest away from what you knew
and the closest to yourself you’d ever been.

There’s a crack in the wall where a daisy keeps insisting.
Whatever the story might have looked like, it also looks like this.