Something old, Something new...

Here is my new blog. This is where I'll be posting almost everything from now on.

But what should I begin with? How should I inagurate such a thing?

While I ponder this have some poetry by Carolyn Forche:

PRAYER

Begin again among the poorest, moments off, in another time and place.
Belongings gathered in the last hour, visible invisible:
Tin spoon, teacup, tremble of tray, carpet hanging from sorrow's balcony
Say goodbye to everything. With a wave of your hand, gesture to all you have known.
Begin with bread torn from bread, beans given to the hungriest, a carcass
of flies.
Take the polished stillness from a locked church, prayer notes left
between stones.
Answer them and hoist in your net voices from the troubled hours.
Sleep only when the least among them sleeps, and then only until the
birds.
Make the flatbed truck your time and place. Make the least daily wage
your value.
Language will rise then like language from the mouth of a still river. No
one's mouth.
Bring night to your imaginings. Bring the darkest passage of your holy
book.