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Rea de Miranda's avatar

You make the decay feel beautiful with your prose, Andy!

Andy Smith's avatar

Thank you, Rae. Thich Nhat Hanh speaks about how the lotus requires mud to grow and in that has its own beauty, that is something I think about a lot.

Rea de Miranda's avatar

I agree with Thich Nhat Hanh.

Rajani Radhakrishnan's avatar

Lovely!

Nancy Sobanik's avatar

Beautifully rendered images and story, Andy!

Andy Smith's avatar

Thank you, Nancy!

Alegria de Rose's avatar

There is always a new birth that comes from the decay, isn’t there. Loved your attention to all the details. Like the beds being pulled apart by creatures still making their own homes. What an image. Beautiful Andy.

Andy Smith's avatar

Yes indeed, Alegria. Birth is only made possible because of death/decay. Thank you for your careful reading

Sarah Thompson's avatar

Love the image of a crestfallen house. Beautiful words, my friend!

Andy Smith's avatar

Thanks, Sarah! I drive past a lot of abandoned farmsteads in my work and I’ve always thought there is a certain human melancholy to them.

Sarah Thompson's avatar

I definitely see that.

Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

In condemned compound,

spring sprouts... birds, spiders weave nests.

Among ruined buildings.

...

Change means ruin? Nah!

Collapse may be turn, pivot.

Life resurrects life.

Andy Smith's avatar

“Spiders weave nests” and “life resurrects life”

What great lines! Thank you for reading and for the restack

Ryan McCarty's avatar

May the little bits of good green find their way in everywhere!