Mammal Twenty
November 11, 2020
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
Habitat
November 11, 2020
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
Height of Beauty
December 20, 2019
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?
You Know, Zen
December 20, 2019
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.
World on a Page
December 19, 2019
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
It’s All in Your Head
June 30, 2019
Sunday morning considerations courtesy of Mary Oliver
Lover Created, Because, Destroyed
June 3, 2019
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
Last Drops
June 1, 2019
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
Whistle While You Wait
May 29, 2019
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
Eroto-Politico Fun
March 30, 2019
From David Foster Wallace’s essay “Ticket to the Fair.”
Voudoun // Desire as Divine
March 28, 2019
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
Shintoism & Reverence in Nature
March 9, 2019
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
Islam & Disciplined Prayer
February 26, 2019
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
The Orange Patch in the Center of the Quilt: Lessons of Survival via Self-Love and Community in the Writings of Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison
February 22, 2019
When Baby Suggs, ultimate matriarch and sorceress in Toni Morrison’s masterpiece “Beloved,” is unable to protect her own kin, to deadly consequence, she retreats from
Judaism & the Academics of Faith
February 17, 2019
Judaism is a faith built on faith. The Messiah is coming, eternally and beautifully coming. In the meantime, there is Yahweh and the holy books:
Jainism: Tolerance as Faith
February 9, 2019
Jainism may be a minority religion in India, but the vast proportions of the Indus Valley render the minor into the massive when scaled to