10/2017

I haven't written to myself in god knows how long so naturally it used to come; that word now permanently stuck, hopelessly affixed to the tip of my tongue- a stranger to myself, my own thoughts, the words that won't arrive. I cannot understand. Why? And to where? And when did I leave? Simultaneously I …

I lit the fire when they came to extinguish it

INFJ II

I feel it apart from the tissue in the skin the skin, tomorrow everywhere is my heart.   Association come to me. Not me. I do not know how anyone chases after chasing all things:   all things, the labels the label between the effect of the body transacted there I know she practices.   …

Prevision

Despite everything, my love: kisses, probability, post diagnoses, pyrotechnics and silence; I am nowhere closer to a Terza Rima then when I began.   I do not think in meter.   I turn and turn and turn the pages. The words never come. Do you have an answer for the cards of life?   I …

For Christopher,

When the silence is fulfilled, I feel the greatest weight- Why can I not in stillness be? What is it that I fear inside Of myself, unaccompanied? I feel alone in this collective. I know not what it is I long for Therefore, what is the remedy? Until the time arrives that you return my …

As Above

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”   Below these trees I stand and tilt up my head and follow along a branch that branches and branches again and again, or else gaze upwards at the mother lunula moon- the patterns of the raindrops, in the stars; and …

Somnambulism

"ABRACADABRA. By abracadabra we signify an infinite number of things.'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither?—a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach.” …