In an unfamiliar city, with friends of whomever I was accompanying, but unknown to me, feeling an intruder in conversations not my own, I went for a walk. Leaving the more well-to-do neighbourhood of my […]
Category: Contrasts
Concealment and invention, or honesty and reality? Interest, fascination, infatuation, obsession, all lie in mystery rather than identity. Within the realm of mystery, love, true love, exists at that moment, that place, where truth and magic collide. Choose, therefore, to be now, or then. Shall you be as you appear, or appear as you are?
Le désespoir
S’ils sont gentils dans le plaisir et scrupuleux dans la louange, le plaisir est un caprice du temps, car le temps est jeune ; et la louange est une vantardise du temps, car le temps […]
Picau ar y maen
In exile, the only certain Welshman living in a hundred-plus-year-old adobe, only miles from the Mexican border with New Mexico, my language still intact, North Welsh, my cast iron griddle kept on the stovetop for […]
Resurgence
My destiny, oft-confirmed by blind fortunetellers in China – 独马单枪空做去 – One horse, one weapon, feat-venturing into the void. [My horse – my cover, my shelter, my shield; my weapon – my words, written, spoken; […]
Reclamation
The language of poetry is shared only with that of myth. Philosophy shares the language of every other discipline. Nietzsche is greatly misunderstood, for the most part owing to the manipulation of his sister, Elisabeth, […]
Together and apart
Shit happens. If you can’t fix it, don’t break it. Carelessly or purposefully hurting someone – treachery, betrayal, deception, backstabbing – is fucked up. It cannot be fixed. First and foremost, loyalty is the least […]
Deliverance
You enquired regarding my current place of residence. I beg your pardon for this delayed response. I have informed you that I am uncomfortable with life in the USA. Were is not for work, offered […]
Incubus
Even the thought of you, to me, an adventure – not exploit, but submission – a place I visit often, to explore, to frolic, to brood – and yet a place I know not, and […]
Schismatic
Don’t ask for permission. If granted permission, keep it to yourself; permission is privilege. If denied permission, gracefully withdraw. Don’t wait to be told. Don’t volunteer information. Don’t lie if you tell. Don’t ask if […]
Self-defence
A man, in part, a poet, whole, and Muse-obsessed; in a matricentral culture born and bred – all women : mothers, sisters, Magdalens, muses – goddesses. In response to the constraint that you appear to […]
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