That power might as well have said, From going to and fro on earth, gambling the way we gamble on highMore
Tag Archives: despair
On standing when the ground is slippery
Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm. –SartreMore
Getting out of bed–again
Both the hopeful and the hopeless riseMore
When That Time Comes
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. –T.S. EliotMore
job’s wife
curse God and die. –The Book of JobMore
Different Still Indifferent
The spirit is a stomach. –ZarathustraMore
The Insanity, the Courage, the Presumption of Writers!
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. –SartreMore
Writing for a Certain Future
Only money economy has filled the days of so many people…with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones. –Georg SimmelMore
Karl and Jasmine
He had the best songs in Key West. Songs celebrating the town. At least he knew he had themMore
A Metamorphosis
Why are we all staring at the same spot on the ground? Or at the same spotlessness of the sky?More
Nothing Left of You
“Only those who are, themselves, on the dusty road of becoming-dust can love others who (or that) have embarked on a similar journey at birth or at the time of their fabrication.” – Michael MarderMore
Spanning the gulf, or trying to, come what may
The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and therein lies his deep humanity…
– KierkegaardMore
On what is social in poetry
Perhaps even our responsibility bears the mark of irresponsibilityMore
Inventing ourselves
Sometimes it seems we are either dreaming of wholeness…or willingly fragmentedMore
An Example
So wise souls/ leaving self behind/ move forwardMore
Love the Dust 