today's birthday personage quote

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

* Annie Dillard
(04/30/1945 – )
US writer

apad 30

I am not a poet
but there is poetry still
in the soft smiles under
cascading hair the
curved shadow as she
walks the quiet feel
of bodies meeting for
a moment in rhyming

I am not a poet
but there is poetry still