“I turn away, back towards the forest. I don’t let go

of the knife in my pocket, not even for a single second. “

"What is it......like?" they'd ask. "On the lighthouse?"
"No corners," he'd reply.

“In the wind, in the sleet, in the drizzletty rain
Flutters the soul that the sun spurs to pain”

“I do have boundaries.
I am enclosed, but porous. Permeable”

“I knew only that she saw, and only I could erase”

“The door to September is opening.”

“I wondered about our creations with the beasts sitting there
and the clouds crowded in from the west.”

“my cabin is home for you,
lover and muse, holding my trust
until I return, as I must.”

“1. Go outside”

“Just ate my last chicken tender for the next six months.”

“Asleep in the sawdust flakes,
he was round as a planet”

“Can I interest you in some pie?”

“She closes the door. Goes to her nowhere place. Burrows in.”

“I knew the Safe Place was real now, not merely a vision in my mind. And I wanted to go back.”