# Meditations in an Emergency - Link: https://mywalkabout.net/meditations-in-an-emergency/ - Published: 2012-12-29T05:04:00-07:00 - Author: My Walkabout The title of this post was the first blog I ever read. His words resonated deeply, tormented thoughts bleeding onto proverbial paper. [the_ad id=”11882″] I thought, if this person can do it, maybe too can I….and so it began. [[ I take the book by [Frank O’Hara](http://www.frankohara.org/) to the top of a park in Praha. I find a strange, gigantic metronome keeping time for no one. Sitting in the winter chill among colorful graffiti, I read the book in it’s entirety whilst the sun sets on the city below. [[ **page 1**_ “I wanted to be sure to reach you, though my ship was on the way it got caught in some moorings. I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.”_ [[ _**page 11 **“Whole days would go by, and later their years, while I thought of nothing but its darkness drifting like a bridge against the sky.” [[ _**page 19 **“If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky.” [[ _**page 37 **“I am troubled as I salute the crocus. There shall be no more reclining on the powdered roads, your veins are using up the redness of the world.” [[ _**page 39 **“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you’ve set. It’s like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.” [[ _**page 51 **“Now I am quietly waiting  for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.” [[ _Fingers are frozen and blue as I make my way down the hill, poetry swirling like soft serve ice cream on a child’s tongue.Pure heaven. ### Share this: * [ Email ](https://mywalkabout.net/meditations-in-an-emergency/?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Meditations%20in%20an%20Emergency&body=https%3A%2F%2Fmywalkabout.net%2Fmeditations-in-an-emergency%2F&share=email) * [Post](https://x.com/share) * [Share on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/share) * [ WhatsApp ](https://mywalkabout.net/meditations-in-an-emergency/?share=jetpack-whatsapp) * [ Nextdoor ](https://mywalkabout.net/meditations-in-an-emergency/?share=nextdoor) * [ Threads ](https://mywalkabout.net/meditations-in-an-emergency/?share=threads) * [[ * [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) * [ Reddit ](https://mywalkabout.net/meditations-in-an-emergency/?share=reddit) ### Like this: Like Loading…