I recently typed up some notes on truth-telling in writing – its importance, I suppose. I just realized its mad importance. I’ve been reading Dostoyevsky’s “The Devils” and it’s been a long time since I ached to read after I put the book down. I’m flying through it. It began as a rather silly, cute…
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At Delphi
She holds her hands before her face So she cannot see, but feels instead. Her open palms take and gratefully receive Without the barrier of sight. She grows in a sequestered place, Where the dark is warm, Where laughter creeps along the floor And winds through her fingers in ribbons; Where, eyes closed and bathed…
A Response to Plato, who Bans the Poets
Dear Plato, Beauty is the beginning… Sometimes, I wonder about beauty. Beauty must be what God is, what heaven will be to our senses. Different people perceive beauty differently, but for me, the most profound occurs in chiaroscuro–the interplay of shadow and light. I thrill at the moment dissonance blooms into harmony. Chills whisper down…
A Forest King is Slain by a Lowly Woodsman
From the Book of Broken Odes Your sadness flutes through dowel holes cut by woodpeckers in flaking sycamores. They flutter bark and call the maple’s sons, the ones as well with sap and weep. And on their tears the mayfly’s tripwire legs alight to sup, its wings still – (flimsy fanatic, hardened heretic) – And…