23 March 2008

Present

Christopher Merrill writes: If poetry is a form of listening to the inner workings of the language, then prayer is how we listen to the divine, which we imagine to be always present, if rarely heard.

22 March 2008

Equinox

Boredom

The real mystery of existence is that we become bored with it - bored, disappointed, frustrated, angry, violent.

Apprehension

Is there an indeterminacy principle at work in Being? Can Being be apprehensible and definable at the same time?

18 March 2008

rain all day

weatherman say
rain all day
rain all day
weatherman pray

word all day
teacherman say
teacherman say
word all day

makerman say
rainword say
makerman say
word dont say

word all day
teacherman say
teacherman say
word all day

makerman say
word dont pray
rainword pray
makerman say

weatherman say
rain all day
makerman say
rainword pray

City

Mind

said Napoleon, is the fifth element.

by the river

remembering
a trembling power
felt not seen
known not thought
flowing beyond the edge of mind

One morning

I woke very late, and it came to me that I knew nothing at all.

12 March 2008

the sun the blue sky

the sun the blue sky
the sun the blue sky

the mountain the road
the mountain the road

the road the red car
the road the red car

the mountain the road the cloud
the mountain the road the cloud

the cloud the thunder the rain
the cloud the thunder the rain

the mountain the road
the mountain the road

the mountain the red car the road
the mountain the red car the road

the road the red car
the road the red car

the road the red car
the road the red car

the road the sun the blue sky
the road the sun the blue sky

the sun the blue sky
the sun the blue sky

the sun the blue sky
the sun the blue sky

the sun
the blue
sky

the sun

the

blue

sky





10 March 2008

City

Theology

God is, and I am not.
I am, and God is not.

08 March 2008

Centricity

Donald Hall writes: Discovery necessitates eccentricity because the center is already known.

04 March 2008

Fårö

moonlight

Raccoon
knows where he is going
so does
Skunk