In some sense, Lindsey Graham and Ann Widdecombe are dead. In another sense, they've left a legacy, lifetimes of principle that can inspire people to live as they did. In that sense, they are very much alive.
I am insufferably introspective. My brain constantly wants to find the pattern underlying the pattern. I like my solitude for reflection and regulation. I like long walks with new music.
(how do you make a home
out of absence?)
you let the salt gather on the windowsill
until it looks like frost,
until the silence takes shape
and answers the door.