Reid

“Life responds when we risk”
― Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel

“I’ve lined my throat
with the river bottom’s best
silt,

allowed my fingers to shrivel
and be taken for crawfish.

I’ve laced my eyelashes with algae.

I blink emerald.
I blink sea glass green.

I am whatever gleams
just under the surface.

Scoop at my sparkle. I’ll give you nothing
but disturbed reflection.

Bring your ear to the water
and I’ll sing you

down into my arms.

Let me show you how

to make your lungs
a home for minnows, how

to let them flicker

like silver

in and out of your mouth
like last words,

like air.”
― saeed jones, When the Only Light Is Fire