secrets

World Peace

I have a friend who took all the doors out of his house one summer. It reminds me there’s nothing I have that’s worth hiding, he said. No secrets is the key to world peace. He put them all back on that winter. I decided it was peaceful enough for me, he said.

Secret Names

After he was quiet a long time, words began to come to him in dreams & told him their secret names & this was the way he learned the true nature of the world.

Public Eye

Contains all the stuff I’ve decided to keep from the public for my own good

Forgetful

I don’t really have any secrets, she told me once. I just forget a lot of stuff.

Deepest Secrets

O no, she said, you can’t say just anything to the wind. Only the deepest secrets will do & also you must not use the letter i.