Exits and Entrances

Cows in blue harnesses attached to helicopters rotate in midair. 

They are being airlifted out of the valley because a glacier 
has just collapsed on an entire village in the Alps. 

There is logic to this, but what is the first point in 
the syllogism? the last? 

I wish I could say How funny or How strange or even Words 
fail me.

In the yard, runways of mud. Evidence of tunneling. I suppose
it makes sense to try to live underground.

Rilke wrote: If we had to exist to become the one we love,
what would the heart have to create? 

The idea gives me goose bumps— that everything 
I love, including myself, I would have to also somehow
bring to life in the world.

When we invited the parish priest to bless our house,
he put a flask of holy water into the child's hand. 

Go ahead, he said. It's you who will be living 
in this space.