Tag: Dust

  • Dust to Dust Indeed

    Dust to Dust Indeed

    JILL CRAINSHAW — I used to think we face our mortalities and shortcomings when our foreheads are ash-smeared. This wisdom endures, but this year? I see both the fragility and wonder of human mortality in the eyes and actions of those whose shoe-dust mingles with mine along life’s myriad highways and byways.

  • Dust

    Dust

    I am dust; to dust I shall always return. But don’t assume as you disturb my rest with your omnipotent kitchen broom that I am mere debris to be swept up and away. Remember. We are interfused, you and I, suspended in each other, vestigial particles of endless galaxies, diminishing and becoming, deposited but for…