The invented person, borrowed from the real—abstracted, isolated—is the person we finally know, or feel we know.  I make myself up from everything I am, or could be.

For many years I was more desire than fact.

When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.”

—Stephen Dunn, from “Notes” in Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs

Notes: Photo – Eric Rose Photography. Quote: – W.W. Norton