hand hewer of soapstone

"If I was a huntress of words
It was because I was a huntress of silence..."

     --Sandra Hochman

Reviving Maori.

so dark the waves on Biscayne Bay
have eaten all the tiny letters
out of my pages
in the dying light
the store is almost empty
bad things
are happening elsewhere

that's either a dolphin
or someone making balloon animals

The Terror of Deep Time.