Every heart craves a deception; proof, least of virtues, loyalty, but what is seems. Every wound, a deliverer, its scar for love inflicted. Mensuration, blinded by light; faith, by darkness sightless.   Ere you came, […]

Acquiescent support of global despotism, Israel, Russia, USA, et cetera; anxiety, fear, desperation; bashing of lesbian, bi, gay, trans, queer, questioning; chemically processed, artificially flavoured and preserved, genetically-modified foods; cold-blooded murder of George Floyd; demise […]

For a few years, too many, I drank too much. Poised between madness and rage, I knew no other rest. Between mediocrity and obsession, I have always chosen obsession. Between my extremes, tentatively, tenuously, balance […]

When I was the Director of Training and Technological Exchange for a French petroleum exploration company headquartered in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, one day, at my training center, a fledgeling bird, apparently venturing from its nest for […]

Regarding my youth, I did whatever was necessary to avoid foster care. In many cases, both with women and with men, that meant surrender to sexual – what would be now called – exploitation, though […]