I boiled my life down

to the purest extract

and watched it dry

and flake away

—Timothy P. Schilling

Timothy P. Schilling writes from Utrecht, the Netherlands. This reflection opens his memoir, Lonesome Road, which will be published by Wipf and Stock.

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