Nevermore
A world and an age ago a better father who loved me sat beside my bed and read: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night.” You said: this is just one time, not the only time or the last. But you’re wrong. My courage, it seems, has an expiration date, as does my […]
The Middle Way
I just finished reading “The “Pornification” of Sacred Sexuality” by Modern Love Muse. This combined with a comment recently left on my post on Cheating got me thinking about modern representations of sex. We’re an odd species. Either we’re commodifying sex to the point where it’s just another thing we eat and shit out – […]
Cheating
So, I’ve been having these waves of conversations about ‘cheating’. He cheated on her. She cheated on him. Someone has a not so open, open relationship, and the ones who’ve professed monogamy for life are all in hell for one reason or another. I don’t often give advice, but I’m going to do it. There […]
#FuckmeFriday – #Faun
#FuckMeFriday is an erotica writing prompt hosted and organized by @AislingWeaver. Please take the time to read the other pieces in this week’s collection. ___________ “Come here.” He is sprawled lazily in the armchair. His fly’s undone, splayed apart. His fingers, coiled like little cobras, stroke the thickening column of his cock. And I do. […]
Love’s Ephemera
During business hours, the collection of hearts in formaldehyde-filled jars is for the most part silent. Each sits in its allotted place on the dusty shelves. Occasionally they bob like dumb sponges in their hermetically sealed baths of forever and forgetfulness. They do their very best to act their part, keeping up appearances. Fleshy and […]
Rough experimental draft of Sound/Text Project – Progressions
So, this is what I’ve been fooling around with for Don. The music is (c) him. It’s really rough, but you kind of get the idea. progressionsmix
I will wander the streets of this fragile city
I will wander the streets of this fragile city and count my blessings, cripple by cripple, beggar by beggar. I will cross the canal’s black fetid waters and find a rare abundance in the flotsam that curls round the bridge piers like unruly kittens. I will smile at the roadside chess players high […]
#Babel
Desire shreds language debrades meaning demando-style entreaties of delicacies not on offer here. Our ziggurat tongues stepped heavenwards are cruel and clever linguistic Esherisms I have lost you in my attempt to encapsulate your essence on this unfeeling white page Rat droppings in place of words runny juissance trickles into dead end crevasses and pools […]
#Progressions
#progression1 skin so white spilled milk across the blue sky of my bed sheets a kiss where you live where you blush where you hide when you’re shy. my breathy journey over your terrain. #progression2 tears so bright a snail’s trail of grief over one swollen breast A taste where you hurt where you rage […]
Somewhere, Someone, In space and Time.
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 1 Curled on the sagging couch in her cold and cheerless flat, she hugs herself to prevent the unseemly disgorging of her entrails. For surely they must be on the verge of falling out […]