What I really want to write about is bonfires.<\/p>\n
The kind you build on the beach, water a stone’s throw away.<\/p>\n
I’ll pretend it has a life of its own.\u00a0 Perhaps it does, who knows.<\/p>\n
It’ll remind me, gently, of what I don’t know.\u00a0 By looking<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
deeply drunk into its flames, I might come to the conclusion<\/p>\n
that the moths were right \u2013 the fire is all there is, that life<\/p>\n
is all about warmth and only about warmth, that the flight to<\/p>\n
the light is the only way to go.\u00a0 Maybe that is why we<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
light candles for our dead.\u00a0 We like to think they have gone<\/p>\n
but a little way down the road and will surely return.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
(c) Ella Wagemakers, 22.45 Dutch time (= 16.45 EST in the US)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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