3 days agoSONG OF THE SORRIESThe messages of grief first appeared in the small places. They appeared in the hidden places, the places of microscopic tenderness, the places of secret communication and lost love. …5 min read
Mar 25MEETING DEATH AT THE RED LIGHTMEETING DEATH AT THE RED LIGHT I spotted death in Prospect, standing beneath the flowering dogwood. I could not decide who was the more beautiful. The summer sky was bloodless. The same couldn't be said for the whitetail deer. …Poetry2 min read
Jan 23END OF A ZOOEND OF A ZOO The Louisville Zoo was closed. The sun was setting. Professor Fourier and her inferior, Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Karl Winthrop, rushed to finish the day's work. The laboratory was in a state of permanent frozen chaos. Dirty beakers and test tubes were strewn throughout. Used Tupperware with…7 min read
Jun 26, 2021requiem for 2020requiem for 2020 the arcane moon rises like a putrid eye over the nation in the endless boardrooms of the capital, resolutions are adopted in an invented language, meaning nothing animals across the country start absolutely freaking out as invisible rivers rise into the living rooms of America, their ghostly…Piranesi2 min read
Jun 21, 2021TYRANNY OF THE NUMBERTYRANNY OF THE NUMBER William Turner, Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background, 1835 7 is always exactly 7. Even when it's approximately 7, it's exactly approximately 7. Thanks to statistics, even the inexact has become exact. …Philosophy3 min read
Jun 17, 2021in memory of leon(the end of the end of history) if christ rises on the third day I will crucify him using twice the nails this is the zen koan I carved endlessly onto the passing driftwood a pointless inscription directed at nobody, meaning nothing the words floating down the stream again and…History4 min read
