Tag Archives: Journeys
STORM EYE
From some moments in transit between New York and Niort, France, August 2009.
Where do I begin? Doesn’t everyone begin like this? I’m changing, life is swiftly moving, but doesn’t everything. There’s something asking me to be me and it lives inside of me. It is who I am. Five sentences and I’m already there. All [...]
SOMEHOW IT STARTED
So this is how it goes – I leave for France on Tuesday, and won’t be returning for a good many days, one of which is my birthday, as well as my mother’s birthday just six days following. My father turned 59 last week, which makes us all Leonine party lovers. You see, I leave [...]
Posted in B.L.O.G Big Long Open Gash Also tagged France, The Beginning of an Inexplicable Journey, the writing life 5 Comments
OH TO BE THROWN IN A DEEP FRYER.
Hello there rainy day, night walkers with your clippity cloppity shoes, I am so very hungry and tired and sad in the eyes, but happy in the soul – for my love is sick, and there’s not a drop to drink amongst this water water everywhere. In every which way I go, I am ceaselessly [...]
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HELLO JANUARY 2009
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)
“The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love, suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the [...]
ALTERCATION WITH RUDDER: COURAGE