On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends his life drawing profiles will end up believing th...
Now I think it is true to say of the road, and also of God, that it does not move. At the same time, it is everywhere. It has a language, but not one I know. It has a story, but I am in it. So are you...
Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a
Lava bread makes you passionate.
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.
Humans in love are terrible. You see them come hungering at one another like prehistoric wolves, you see something struggling for life in between them like a root or a soul and it flares for a moment,...
Her marble tears run down her marble face.A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.Who has no words to say.Whose shadow mind is burningas he sits watching her handsand thinks how rare!to see a Ro...
All the same there are some small questions one would like to put to Sokrates. Or better still Sappho. .
… in between the neighbour who recalls hercoming in from a walk on the moorswith her face lit up by a divine lightand the sister who tells usEmily never made a friend in her life,is a space where the...
Fr. 2All We as Leaves He (following Homer) compares man's life with the leaves.All we as leaves in the shock of it: spring-one dull gold bounce and you're there. You see the sun? - I built that.As a l...
Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries in my hand.
Your voice I know. It had me terrified. When I hear it in dreams, from time to time all my life, it sounds like a taunt—but dreams distort sound, for they send it over many waters. During these hard d...
You remember too much,my mother said to me recently.Why hold onto all that?And I said,Where do I put it down?
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Part of what you enjoy in a documentary technique is...
Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what...
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the proble...
People really understand very little of one another. Sometimes when I speak to him, my Cid looks very hard and straight into my face as if in search of something (a city on a map?) like someone who ha...
Monogamous.I'm interested in monogamous.I got married last Mayand had my honeymoon is Stykkishólmur.This year I returned to Stykkishólmurto live with my husbandfor three months in one small room.This...
HE WAS FOURTEENit was years ago and Sad’sname wasn’t Sad yet. Firstcomet. G had juststumbled off a bus theylooked at one another andthat lasted until G wasalmost twenty but he.Well. Being a loyal soul...