The Malagasy chameleon spends 3/4 of its life burried underground, incubating inside an egg. This makes me consider the difference between life and incubation, growth, to prepare.
Distractions, William Stafford
Think about Gypsies–
like smoke in the evening they cross a border.
They don’t believe in it, and they say if God
doesn’t care nobody cares. In the morning
their wagons are gone, carrying their stories
away. They like the sound of a wheel
and have given up owning a place. They roll
beyond old newspapers and broken glass and
start a new campfire. Sometimes, going up
a steep hill, they get off and walk forward
and whisper the oldest secret in the world
into the ears of their horses.
