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1 " We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. "
― Jim Harrison , Saving Daylight
2 " Nowhere is it the same place as yesterday.None of us is the same person as yesterday.We finally die from the exhaustion of becoming.This downward cellular jubilance is sharedby the wind, bugs, birds, bears and rivers,and perhaps the black holes in galactic spacewhere our souls will all be gathered in an invisiblethimble of antimatter. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.Yes, trees wear out as the wattles under my chingrow, the wrinkled hands that tried to stranglea wife beater in New York City in 1957.We whirl with the earth, catching our breathas someone else, our soft brains ill-trainedexcept to watch ourselves disappear into the distance.Still, we love to make music of this puzzle. "
3 " Lift up your dark heart and sing a song abouthow time drifts past you like the gentlest, almostimperceptible breeze.— Jim Harrison, from “Cold Poem,” Saving Daylight. (Copper Canyon Press 2006) "