THAT
THAT I did love you once and every leaf shook with your breath. Between us lay delicious heresy, a bed of incest. We two entwined broke over continents inside a wave of...
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REVOLUTION
REVOLUTION I don’t believe in revolution. But revolution is not a belief dependent phenomenon. Revolution occurs when reform fails. When reform fails, historic change...
Read MoreTRANQUILITY
TRANQUILITY The living tree Rings up years In narrow bands The time we see Is parsed by gears With minute hands And eternity Turns fertile spheres To fossil sands...
Read MoreOf Plots and Tomatillos
It is now commonplace to say that human beings require narrative to understand things. Cognitively we construct narrative explanations of non-narrative events, that is,...
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THE SON AGAINST THE FATHER As Breaking Bad winds down I am struck by what should have been obvious all along: Breaking Bad is a Gnostic drama of the Son against the...
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