Hatagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, my rented six-tatami room. Xuerong is in town on a 24-hour layover between London and Beijing. She arrived yesterday afternoon, and will leave this afternoon. After fucking much of the night, it […]

Tomato soup – for the unimaginative, the indolent, the unfortunate – just like grandma used to make, but she did not poison it. You know the one – the tired, old American brand. Ingredients: Tomato […]

In her own person, merely being, poet and sorceress, angel and curse, sister and succubus. Heroine without a patron. Benefactress without a suitor. Her poems, muse-obsessed. Her lovers, in her poems immortalised. No sin without […]

It is unlikely that the Divine would have such fragile conceit as to be in any way offended by those who disbelieve. Il est peu probable que la divinité ait une vanité si fragile qu’elle […]

If the fool, obsessed, persists in her or his obsession, that obsession becomes devotion; that devotion, belief; that belief, reality; that reality, enlightenment. The fool then becomes the sage, the seer, prophetess, prophet. Bedevilled, bemused. […]

To begin with, you were never mine.Because I am entirely, tirelessly yours.That was the reality that eluded me,momentarily. I picked myself up in thedarkness, persevering half a lifetime ’tilthe day when I might be found […]