The way a gardener would shape a garden

So you, as an artist, can manipulate time and move things around, you cut and shape the way a gardener would shape a garden, so that you can see certain flowers and pay attention to certain plants, otherwise it’s just a jungle. And it’s the writer’s job to cut away and prune and shape and make order from that jungle so that you can pay attention and see certain colors and patterns.

-Sandra Cisneros

 

The city is alive (if the light is dim)

You who grew up through the pavement

with butterflies in your stomach

skyscrape in your eyelids

fingers lost for words

find comfort in this:

The city is alive

(if the light is dim

if the light is defused

put this little light to use)