Ken Crane

“God-forsaken is beautiful, too.”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

“For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren't you at all.”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

“Voluntary Quicksand

I read the Chronicle this morning
as if I were stepping into voluntary
quicksand
and watched the news go over my shoes
with forty-four more days of spring.

Kent State
America
May 7, 1970”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork