Category Archives: Life
Summer Blockbuster
space On that greater screen our hero finds a bomb packed in a van. We hear with him the ticks of doom, and though his face is calm as ironed leather, tense cellos burn a hidden fuse of terror in … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, History, Life, Memoir, Otherworlds
The Okie Blademan’s Song
space I am a turbine tech for the county and I ride these windy roads climbing to God’s country to milk the whirling loads … Or at least that’s how I sing it driving out from Woodward to the wind … Continue reading
Song Of Almost Nothing
That’s Violet, our Siamese, one of our feline wards and a warden of home. space Sometimes all that matters is your voice on the phone telling me what a bad headache you have, asking me to skip the gym and … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Devotions, Life, Love, Poetry
Black Womb
space For years I’ve gotten up at this too-early hour to read and write God’s plenty down, filling these books of wild blue udder with fin and hoof in inky-blue wonder, in & out & round & down this mortal … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alchemies, Alcoholism, Art and Heart, Death, Devotions, Grails, History, Immrama, Life, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Noir, Otherworlds, Remembrance, Sexuality, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark
Tidesman
space My longing for you is the long-lost man inside this writing hand who walks forever on that beach you and I once and only walked together down, his voice inside my ear praying to and cursing every softly crashing … Continue reading
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Arthurian Romance, Devotions, Floridiana, Grief, Life, Love, Oran, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Prayer, Sexuality, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Sea, Water-Folk
Orion (A Cold Winter Night’s Tale)
space Absolute cold now blankets the snow-drifted whiteout, the night sky fierce with temps nearing thirty degrees below zero. The North wind quells every living motion outside and grips down on the walls of her house with empty malice, the … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Celestial events, Dream, Floridiana, Grief, Life, Love, Myth and Archetype, Nature, Poetry, Sexuality, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark, The Sea
Hanging On The Line With The Lineman
Jimmy Webb (r) wrote “By the Time I Get To Phoenix,” “Witchita Lineman,” and “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” — a triptych of songs leading to this present moment. space (Reposted from December 31, 2010, in honor of 24-year-old … Continue reading
Filed under Aging, Art and Heart, Culture, History, Life, Madness and Mania, Music, poetics, Prose, Pyschology, Writing
A Fallujah Christmas
space I wish I could be with you tonight assembling Billy’s trike or bolting up the swing set while you put bows on everything. It’s cold as hell tonight in this Godforsaking town. The moon hangs full over a shattered … Continue reading
The Standoff
space (A photo in the paper – a man in a doorway holds a gun to his head with one hand, in the other a beer; two police face him behind a shield) I stand at the door, half-in, half-out, … Continue reading
Marilyn In Love
space It’s winter in Connecticut, snowing up a gale; Marilyn is home alone this Christmas. Arthur is away, demanding a solitude she knows is iced with the old contempt of her having found her naked self (and probably already with … Continue reading
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Creativity, Culture, Dream, Grails, Life, Literature, Love, Madness and Mania, Mind, Myth and Archetype, Sexuality, Spirituality, Writing
