Virginity
You were a sort of blood mother to me: first you held me close, for eighteen years, and then you let me go. Sharon Olds, Ode to my Hymen Was I ever, am I ever, comfortably outside my mother? Languishing, always. A thin layer swathed around the truth of our non-resemblance, our non-penetration. Me, […]
Year-long Standard Vision Installation
Artificial intelligence is conquering image production – and with it museums and the market
2023 June, SuperTalk Saturday Morning Radio
Transmission
This NFT project is literally putting poetry on the blockchain
March
Mammal Twenty
Published by About Place Journal time and small children time to think too much of it the child plays you squat and ruminate time disbursed as mother apart from yourself the child wants park with you only you you travel to park here child scrambles you ponder only me me but also them only them the […]
Habitat
They say our planet is ending + I believe them—belief not in the manner religion is bred—but, simply—I see the end. Drive from Barranquilla to Santa Marta along Colombia’s Caribbean coast + it waits there already—Ciénaga—Ciénaga is our plastic-wrapped end. A fishing village whose entire topsoil is monochrome plastic decay. I drive past Ciénaga each […]
Height of Beauty
Secret obsessions, private mad endeavors, finally, unintentionally, revealed are so fragile they break the beholder’s heart. Which beckons the ask: why is heartbreak so beautiful? From “Letters from Max,” by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo.
You Know, Zen
I finally got it, got Zen, thanks to Matsuo Basho, Haiku master of and for all time. Zen is the eternal captured in the moment. The simple conveyed by the complex. It is the power by which haiku, that uninterruptible conscientious brief burst of words, implies all forms, all poems. Basho was a wonderer and […]
World on a Page
What I love, so much, about Anne Carson is how much world she packs onto a paper page. Below is page 2.5 from “Autobiography of Red” an orbit-altering read.
It’s All in Your Head
Sunday morning considerations courtesy of Mary Oliver
Lover Created, Because, Destroyed
Such an honor to see my review of Luis Panini’s book The Destruction of the Lover published in Tupelo Quarterly. My review seeks to articulate Lawrence Schimel’s translation of Panini’s original Spanish text, a translation that forms part of the Pleiades Press Series in Translation. Tupelo is a journal I’ve admired for so long. One […]
Last Drops
Sometimes, a lot of the times, when I read Sharon Olds it is a small, non-central phrase that does me in. Seldom is it the grand finale. Often, it is a line tucked into the middle, like a “last drop of something,” that makes me come back to it, come back to the poem, in […]
Whistle While You Wait
The Poetry Foundation’s site come in mighty handy while waiting in line. Example on this is brief, perfect poem above. Other photo in this post is the internal patio of the Poetry Foundation’s Chicago headquarters, which I recently had the chance to visit. More on that later. Later like when I am waiting again in […]
Eroto-Politico Fun
From David Foster Wallace’s essay “Ticket to the Fair.”
Voudoun // Desire as Divine
Voudoun is a religion of volume, voluminous rites under voluminous skies. It is a cosmology whereby hungry, horny god is appeased by the action of hungry, horny human hand. Through the physicality of man, both heaven and earth may be healed. In Voudoun, the loa, or spirits, materialize via corporeal possession of the Voudouist, or […]
Shintoism & Reverence in Nature
Shintoism, to me, is best described as the religion of Hayao Miyasaki’s animé — of ancient forest, of swift river, and of plump purple friend or yellow-red fanged foe walking through forest, swimming across river. Shintoism, to me, is the candied knowledge that the natural world is synonymous with the spiritual world and should be […]
Islam & Disciplined Prayer
What would happen if every human on earth prayed at five am just once a month? Once a week? How about once a day? What would happen if that single morning prayer was just one of five daily prayers, five daily moments devoted to humility, silence, grace? The Five Pillar of Islam are faith, prayer, […]