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XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud

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That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attemptedalthough married six months.Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and t...more

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...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoug...more

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The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how the impertinent...more

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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt ...more

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There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship tr...more

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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsi...more

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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, change...more

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When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his person, an influx like eros becomes a concrete person...more

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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfec...more

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Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

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Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.There's...more

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Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, l