Bart Blog

happens in the shadow of the spotlight.
In the not-quite-obscure.

Small towns, villages. Buses and trains and fare dodging.
The diner whose biggest pride is that the food is honest.
Shipyards, pubs, dive bars.
Chinese market, car rental, amateur theater.

At the graduation, at the layoffs, at the movies.
At the graveyards, at the grave shifts, at the highway.

It’s all around us.
In the first and the last breath and all the heartbeats in the middle.

But rarely where we choose to look.

Which is silly given how much we claim we look.