Status Updates From Consider the Rooster

How should I be
both beautiful and strong? It was as if
the atmosphere had a pink
story. The atmosphere was pink
for a while as I walked back,
and heavy. Never look a deer
in the face. The whites of human
eyes give me away. Like a gift.
To a god.

- "Wonderland"

Does it hurt to say we saw.
Can you tell us what we saw, was it.
Just some glorious raccoon in
Gelatinous debt.

- "Me and All That is Unsolved, Me and the Fire"

Let the heavens fade lilac to orange on
the longest night. I'll leave you candles.
May racoons walk their spidery prints all
over the dirt, may berries sprout
magic. I leave you my pleasure and joy
for which I worked so hard.

-- "Will and Testament"

Somewhere swings open a gate we all know we all want.

-- "T4T"

[the italicized quote in "I Just Chose My Place and Let the Circle Form Around Me" seems to be from Christian Metz's account of the founding of the Ebenezer, later Amana, utopian communes]