The Mother Ziti

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Jeff Mangum (x)

Wow, I’ve never seen it articulated before, but this is so true of me. I mean, I definitely remember spending hundreds of hours on Four Corners, and all the novels I have in my drawer, but with Four Corners in particular I still go ‘Hey, wait, where did that come from??’

by Laura Gilpin

The things I know: how the living go on living and how the dead go on living with them

So that in a forest even a dead tree casts a shadow and the leaves fall one by one and the branches break in the wind and the bark peels off slowly and the trunk cracks and the rain seeps in through the cracks and the trunk falls to the ground and the moss covers it

and in the spring the rabbits find it and build their nest inside and have their young and their young will live safely inside the dead tree

to touch his face. Your fingers

will shake. You will be crying

and you will not know why

and it’s not his fault. It’s not his fault

he is an un-swung axe.