It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. –Wallace StevensMore
Tag Archives: transformation
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
On joy and pessimism
Nothing human is worthy of being taken very seriously. Nonetheless…. –Plato, via NietzscheMore
Thoughtlessness upon waking
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state. –Antonio DamasioMore
The Message, the Messenger
No one pushes his way through here, certainly not someone with a message from a dead man. –KafkaMore
Love Happened
Maybe love is what happens when we stop begging the world to be something other than what it isMore
What is Like Sweet Fresh Milk
…but the cow cannot be compared to anything. –Yajur VedaMore
Once the rage settled down
We were as little sure of who we were as where we were after the rageMore
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
Calling Azur
For my grandmother’s fearless curiosity, which at one time brought the family an unforgettable friendMore
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
Love the Dust 