End of an Era

Hello Void,

I am writing to say that regrettably, I am winding down for this site to go dark shortly.

The site hosting this domain will require a few thousand dollars for me to retain this domain for the next decade. I did have some funds set aside for this inevitability but that was eaten up in the last month by new tires and finding out my old pup has pretty advanced osteosarcoma and subsequently seeing her over the proverbial rainbow bridge following a pathologic fracture. 

So, here we are, with another goodbye. 

We’ll be on, then.

Realizing that today is the tomorrow

Chest aching

Nausea

Sleeplessness

The funny thing about

your heart breaking

is all the screen time

as you wait for the inevitable

and realize

today is already tomorrow

Yours Cheekily, W. H.

If I shortened
my definitely foreign perhaps difficult or even hostile
given name
to their inoffensive but not indifferent first letters

Could I have the audacity
to daydream of being likened to Auden

From Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

…for when a moment arrives that is so much feared and so long waited, it perforates the veil of everyday expectation in such a way as to reveal the prodigious darkness of the unknown.