My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it..

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time..

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am..

Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with ….

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a….

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is….

What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as ….

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away..

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind..

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life..

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness ha….

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-.

Under the seams runs the pain..

The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor f….

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief..

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those ….

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made..

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to….

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death..

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a per….