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History - Burnside1) "Today"2) "Sand spinning off ribbons on the beach" 3) "today with the news in my mind, and the muffled dread of what may come - " 4) "I knelt down in the sand" 5) "Finding evidence of life in all this driftwork:"6) "Snail shells, shreds of razor fish, smudges of weed and flesh on tideworn stone" 7) "I think what makes us who we are is neither kinship nor our given states but something lost between the world we own and what we dream about..." 8) "our bodies fixed and anchored to the shore" 9) "though we are confined by property what tethers us to gravity and light has most to do with distance and the shapes we find in the water" 10) "we trade so much we know the virtual, we scarcely register the drift and tug other bodies / scarcely apprehend" 11) "Attentive to the irredeemable"

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