Down pours spring.
I swim the Mississippi
in a dream. Time
is a library on fire. You will want
to know everything. But only
some things remain.
To a Son
Sarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You. She works as an editor and studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.
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