Practicing to Walk Like a Heron

Preludes

135 Preludes One wing of a monarch butterfly lying on the back porch steps. Over the hill, the old goat. . . . Call me when the X-rays come in. I may need to find a ride. Angels, after they have fallen, often love to go horseback riding in the rain. When the house painter goes home after work, he goes for a walk with his dog. He never takes a leash. God needs a god. This long stretch of highway, this grapefruit, this only way to say it’s sad but not that bad. Before the beginning, between the title and what follows, in there, in that space, that’s where the horses rest. ____________________, and _____________, or _______________, but ____________; whereas,_____________, but, then, of course __________ Last night. What goes best with Kant’s metaphysics? Would it be better without 136 a beverage? Outside, the rain on the roof. Inside, the rain on the roof. A family of six leaves Ogden, Utah at nine in the morning traveling east toward Salinas, Ohio. A car full of thieves leaves Albany, New York at seven at night heading west toward Saginaw, Michigan. If the family drives an average of 57 mph Whenever he fell asleep on the couch, she would get out her puppets. ...