Memoir of a Storyteller

the Host of the Air
Michael Bilotta

“who did I think we were.

who did I think

I could make you.

…this is the oldest mistake,

to confuse wanting

with magic. silence is the undoing

of every spell, and we are experts

in the unsaid. even now, I forget

to put us in past tense. as if

the air in this city were the same.

as if love is anything like its speaking.”

― Marty McConnell Emily Kagan Trenchard

Composition By:

Kay Lynn Gabaldon

August, 2015