I wake in a small house with one blue wall by a cold sea, also blue, most days transparent where water works itself
Then came I entire to this moment process and light to discover the country our waking breaking open —Muriel Rukeyser, from “Breaking Open” The
My grandmother’s mahogany end table, the other grandmother’s fluted vase, Aunt Marge’s petit point covered side chair, and the O’Connell family Bible, rescued