lynn park

i take pictures. i write. i use a wheelchair that is a tool and not a definition. i love my friends and my cat. i pray. i support occupy. i know grief and i know joy.

to paint the deep and glowing dark / in tones of light that do not lie: / this is my task before i die

and i know longing:

oh yes i harbor desire in this awkward corpus / these veiny bones have roots that go down deep / into what does not see / what cannot be seen

but most of all i know this:

nothing essential has been denied me