spring and summer and winter and fall - through such weather and wear and all the cold hot steam rain mud of this warm warm earth filled with sound - take it, swallow everything until you breathe all of it out in one breath, until your sweat pours from your pores with the sticky salt of strain, until your heart explodes with its beating from the beat of this whirlwind affair that has just begun. take it, take it, it is yours. and give yourself... you will - it will be taken from you because of your core. you are here and always will be in this world alone and a part of the whole. swallow deep, wear down your want, taper the dull fear with the knife of your soul. take it, dear friend.