death is a place

  .     The dead are always looking down on us, they say. While we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich, they are looking down thro...

  . They’re moving off in all imaginable directions, each according to his own private belief, and this is the secret that silent Lazarus wo...

  . The worst thing about death must be the first night. —Juan Ramón Jiménez . Before I opened you, Jiménez, it never occurred to me that da...

 . It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. Pedestrians are flattened by safes fal...

. I imagined the atmosphere would be clear,  shot with pristine light, not this sulphurous haze, the air ionized as before a thunderstorm.  ...

. After three days of steady rain - over two inches said the radio - I follow the example of monks who write by a window, su...

. The best time is late afternoon when the sun strobes through the columns of trees as you are hiking up, and when you ...

. I cannot leave you without saying this: the past is nothing, a nonmemory, a phantom, a soundproof closet in which Jo...

. Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the ...

. The dead are always looking down on us, they say. while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich, they are loo...