"The bullets are designed in such a fashion that the energy is deposited in the tissue and so the bullet stays in. This is a very devastating set of injuries" sigh...... so cruel..sad holidays this year for some families 12/21/12 .. what's going to be i/o

heavy like
har

A Blizzard of One:

From the shadow of domes in the city of
domes,
A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless,
entered your room
And made its way to the arm of the chair
where you, looking up
From your book, saw it the moment it
landed. That’s all
There was to it. No more than a solemn
waking
To brevity, to the lifting and falling away
of attention, swiftly,
A time between times, a flowerless
funeral. No more than that
Except for the feeling that this piece of
the storm,
Which turned into nothing before your
eyes, would come back,
That someone years hence, sitting as you
are now, might say:
“It’s time. The air is ready. The sky has
an opening.”- Mark Strand

the english surgeon

throw down your heart