On average, 5 people are born every second and 1.78 die.
So we’re ahead by 3.22, which is good, I think.
The average person will spend two weeks in his life
waiting for the traffic li...
Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are taking root. And my c...
2024-10-31 09:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post
"Heaving himself out of the barrel the fawn man, covered in salt-herring juice, staggered past the salmon counter and followed the crowd. There was a tinkling and crashing of glass at the doorway a...
2024-10-30 16:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot, a mysterious figure who has promised to visit them. They engage in a series of nonsensical conversations while waiting.
Vladimir:...
2024-10-29 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
"I tried to think of something else, but it was too late, I was already thinking. I tried to stop thinking, but I couldn't. I tried to get up, but I couldn't. I tried to sleep, but I couldn't. I tr...
2024-10-28 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rat...
"And high above, in Salt Lake Farm, Mr Utah Watkins counts, all night, the wife-faced sheep as they leap the fences on the hill, smiling and knitting and bleating just like Mrs Utah Watkins.
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They...
2024-10-25 09:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Llaregyb Hill, that mystic tumulus, the memorial of
peoples that dwelt in the region of Llaregyb before the
Celts left the Land of Summer and where the old wizards
made themselves a wi...
"ROSIE PROBERT (Softly)
What seas did you see,
Tom Cat, Tom Cat,
In your sailoring days
Long long ago?
What sea beasts were
In the wavery green
When you were my master?...
To begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limpi...
2024-10-22 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, m...
2024-10-21 09:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe other day, I uploaded a little "film" consisting entirely of footage captured on my phone that I typically take merely for memories (and IG stories every now and then). Is this something that i...
2024-10-20 15:26:48 +0000 UTC View Post
"I will love you with no regard to the actions of our enemies or the jealousies of actors. I will love you with no regard to the outrage of certain parents or the boredom of certain friends. I will...
2024-10-20 14:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
"On the cool October morning when Cayetana Chávez brought her baby to light, it was the start of that season in Sinaloa when the humid torments of summer finally gave way to breezes and falling le...
2024-10-20 10:15:54 +0000 UTC View Post
"Ebenezer shook his head in a matter not clearly affirmative or negative. "That is a part of it, Henry; you go at such a pace, I have no time to think things through as they deserve! I cannot colle...
2024-10-19 08:59:50 +0000 UTC View Post
"Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the meanness, the cynicism with which this dream is to be used. The Serpent ...
2024-10-18 09:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Words I’d like to get in a poem,
hemoglobin and chifforobe and ombudsman and mahogany.
Meanwhile, a friend is studying the maha¯yuga,
the “Cycle of Cycles,” 4,320,000 years...
I know that some humans out there enjoy the silly little stories I post on IG. With that in mind, I thought I'd explore making something similar for Patreon. Is this something that people might enj...
2024-10-16 18:12:44 +0000 UTC View Post
To-night, as ages hence, people would say this, or shut their doors on them, turn in bereaved agony from them, or toward them with love saying: "That is our star up there, yours and mine”; steer ...
2024-10-16 07:51:56 +0000 UTC View Post
1.
They both remember the throat
is silver riverined
in the deep beet-color of blood,
a shockingly lovely expanse
the spent – the loser – wolf displays
below ...
As a member, you are entitled to a 50% discount if you would like a print of one of my photographs. Almost any photograph of mine is available for print, whether you've seen it here, on IG or elsew...
2024-10-14 16:45:28 +0000 UTC View PostToday's post is an example of a perhaps slightly odd and bold experiment from yesteryear that I never even thought of making public. I wonder whether subscribers here appreciate seeing these kinds ...
2024-10-14 15:08:28 +0000 UTC View Post
1.
The far trees bristle up like a hairbrush.
Overhead, the sky is a wan blue.
Two clouds look as if they’re sharing
cellular material through a mutual wisp....
“After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heapi...
2024-10-13 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
“Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose continents rise in bas-relief above the oceans. But then: think of how it real...
2024-10-12 11:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
It's as if every demon from hell with aspirations
toward interior design flew overhead and indiscriminately
spouted gouts of molten gold, that cooled down
into swan-shape spigo...
“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll danc...
Partly because I just want to try out this poll feature and partly because I am curious:
How would you feel if during the first couple of months, I also uploaded old work every now and then...
“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing, the writing would take the wind out of his sails, would render him null and ...
2024-10-09 10:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post