from 3/16/08

The road to recovery is uphill and spirals the greatest possible distance
around the hill before the destination of the city on the hill.
The sentence that follows the road to recovery winds about the road
among ditches and the brush, the sentence searching for its predicate
as it stretches its object as far from the subject of the sentence as possible,
winds in a fashion as sustained as its artificer can make it, keeping in mind
subject and object and predicate, the sentence predicated itself
upon the thought that there is a city on a hill approachable by a road
of rather steep grade that winds around the hill for as long as possible,
that the sentence can follow the shape and length of the road without getting into a tangle, without forcing us to abandon hope. Could I sustain the length of the sentence,
could I walk that far uphill, the sentence that winds around the hill
until it reaches the very city on the hill.