“souls of the drowned return home,” ZJC (2006)
Dylan Thomas, “When the salt sheet broke in a storm of singing/ The voices of all the drowned swam on the wind.”
Howard Moss, “The senseless drowned/ Have faces nobody would care to see,/ But water loves those gradual erasures/ Of flesh and shoreline, greenery and glass … Grown […]
“death enters the house of old gods,” ZJC (2006)
I was browsing through the latest edition of Discover Magazine and stumbled upon a fascinating article by John Horgan entitled “The God Experiment,” which asked this question: Suppose scientists found a way to give us permanent, blissful, mystical self-transcendence. Would we want that power?
Hell, yes! I […]
“sappho victorious,” ZJC (2006)
In the primordial mud of
existence, an exhumed doll,
a miraculated body soaked
with tears
– Michel Nedjar
I love me some myth! I had this dream last night of a classical Greek woman being judged in the underworld. This morning I began to think of the myth of Sappho, the 10th Muse, and what […]
“prisoners at sachsenhausen awaiting execution: and where were you my fine poet?” ZJC (2006)
A friend of mine recently posted this question on her Poetrywithmeaning blog and it got me thinking about the age old debate of the poet in society:
There was a time when poets used to be sought after, to be a poet was […]
“captain, O my captain!” ZJC (2006)
Gentleness, sacrifice, devotion; when I was younger and trying to teach myself humility I’d play a little game. Regardless of where I was — grocery line check-out, library, bookstore — I’d ask myself: “what if the person standing in front of me was my teacher? my elder? and I […]