Last Words
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by 
Marmalade
Marmalade
Last Words
May/June 2008
A western diamondback sinks its fangs into a green jay in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
“It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. ‘They all eat on another’ he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, They all feed one another, and called it good.”
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author and lecturer, from her 1935 autobiography
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Nicole said
dewdrop world, dewdrop world, and yet and yet…
sigh… it’s so hard, Ben
Marmalade said
A friend of mine sent this to me, and I thought the picture was so beautiful. The intensity of life at the brink of its ending… or, rather, changing forms.
Nicole said
it is very beautiful and intense… and terrible