Here is the secret I want
to give to you because I
give out secrets. I like
you here and give the way
the Fates give, soothingly,
dear, smoothingly.
You knew you could put
honey in your mouth to
sweeten all this and you
did. You knew the legend
here that says the goat
moon marks certain of us,
dear. Certain of us like […]
“into desire I shall come”
– fragment 96. Sappho. translated by Anne Carson (193)
Desire, like promises, are weighing heavily on me today. Not desire as carnal, but desire as in action. My friend Katya sent me a new photograph this morning. She wrote in her letter:
I made [this photo] […]
“the bullgod as icarus,” ZJC (2006)
To be fascinated with the myth of Icarus is to be fascinated with executions. Perhaps your mythology text book does not call it such but that is what it is. An execution. The myth goes like this:
Icarus was imprisoned, with his father, in a tower on Crete, […]
For years I have been having trouble with sleeping. If I could get to bed by 1:30 or 2 in the morning and be awake at 5:30 or 6 to start my day I would consider it a good night’s rest. As a result I had trouble recalling any dreams, since my REM […]
“fear of the bullgod,” ZJC (2006)
So …
… you like new things, I like new things, let us make some new things, lettuce. But where to start? The French Decedent poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote in his letter to Georges Izambard, “je est un autre,” “I is another.” I is an/other, somebody else. […]