On Being a Finn: Thumbnail Sketch

Steve with Jacket over his head

I wake and laugh. Unborn trees in the yard. Laugh and laugh. Gallop through my nervous system. Certain stars were in my dream. When I talk, words like coffee are automatic, but after-dreams are dancing still. They’ll rise, quietly into the shadow sky. The coffee is good. “Time,” I think, “to open a window.”

There are so many minutes for which no proper names exist. Deep in the night I carved my name on a seed. Now I’ve awakened outside the broken temple.

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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