“... And Lord the sound of their wings / is the sound of the leaves...”
—Shane McCrae, from “Crows,” Mule
THE WAY THINGS WORK
is by admitting
or opening away.
This is the simplest form
of current [...]
The way things work
is by solution,
resistance lessened or
increased and taken
advantage of.
The way things work
is that finally we believe
they are there,
common and able
to illustrate themselves.
Wheel, kinetic flow,
rising and falling water [...]
[...] I believe
forever in the hooks.
The way things work
is that eventually
something catches.
—Jorie Graham, from “The Way Things Work,” Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
