The Unreliable Keeper of Time
I slip your mind like sand through fingers leaving only salty dust to be brushed off like a deed accomplished. Time can be broken as sure as lover’s hearts in a fragile moment of blameless forgetting or of a world too much with you, braying its demands, flashing even teeth, its Christmas ornaments, its ringing […]
UnKindled & Paypalless: Ethics and the Bottom Line
I’ve been thinking hard about this topic for about 24 hours. I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. I realized that my decision is going to affect more than just me, but, to paraphrase Edmund Burke, evil triumphs when good men do nothing. I have decided to take all Amazon links to my […]
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
That’s not a joke question. What is wrong with this picture? Exactly what could anyone possibly find offensive about it? Great light, wonderful muted colours, great contrasts between skin and sheet, the soft green fabric and the ochre glow of the lamp. Any splayed cunt? Any penetration? Abuse? Cruelty to animals? Sharp edged power tools? […]
Silly Friday: How to Enjoy Airport Security & Travel Comfortably
I know that some people feel I’m too serious all the time. Too emo, too indulgent. So, I thought I’d institute a Silly Friday post. If you follow me on twitter, you know I travel quite a bit. A lot of people find air travel frustrating and uncomfortable. But it doesn’t have to be. It […]
The Things that Grow in a Vacuum
I have recently had a friendship come apart. It died from neglect and I admit complicity in its demise. I get too focused on things. I don’t water the flowers as much as I should. I tend to assume that, once I have had a meeting of minds with someone and a level of affection […]
Mysterious Small
If you were here in the humid, scented dark, I’d tell you what the moths whisper with their wings when they brush stars. If you were here I’d show you where the wet green moss makes love to ragged stones. If you were here I’d carve your breath into rain clouds and watch the sun […]
Somata for your pillow, love
I come for you in the bright tear of dawn, the silence of the dead afternoon, the brooding hum of evening, searching for the comfort of your continued existence. My mind launches, sticky-tipped toward the nest I have built for you, somata for your pillow, love, in my fertile neural forest. A tap, a touch, […]
De Paseo
Along the dusty boulevard wide hipped girls saunter shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, in languid lockstep Sunset sweat bejeweling their upper lips and foreheads, glistening glass beads at their temples A slow parade of possible futures for the boys on the benches who watch with smoke-stung eyes while pretending disinterest. Gazelles and lions on […]
I Sing to the Body Electric – Persona in Motion
It is 7:30 am. I wake up, make my way downstairs and lean sleepily against the counter as I wait for my coffee. Then, sitting down to my laptop, I open it. Sweetly, accommodatingly, it connects to the web; I open up Twitter and say my good mornings. I am become Remittance Girl. Of course, […]
Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory – Weinsheimer, Joel – Yale University Press
Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory – Weinsheimer, Joel – Yale University Press. Book lust.