5 DAYS BEFORE THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND THE WAXING OF THE LIGHT: Now and Again and Sometimes and Always Writers create magic. I give you Tennessee Williams - He inspires me to keep stringing words together. . .
EZMERALDA’S PRAYER, from “CAMINO REAL,” by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, 1953.
“God bless all con men and hustlers and pitchmen who hawk their hearts on the street, all two-time losers who’re likely to lose once more, the courtesan who made the mistake of love, the greatest of lovers crowned with the longest horns, the poet who wandered far from his heart’s green country and possibly will and possibly won’t be able to find his way back, look down with a smile tonight on the the last cavaliers, the ones with the rusty armor and soiled white plumes, and visit with understanding and something that’s almost tender those fading legends that come and go in this plaza like songs not clearly remembered.”