It's hard enough having very individualized high ideals. But then it's all the harder when a society of enforcers pits itself against you, trying to force you -- a square peg -- into their hole. That's when it becomes especially important to have someone who'll scratch your back, share in your vision.

( Comic Dos )

Both lyrical and philosophical, evidently describing the positive capacity of the true husband, this passage slapped me in the face this morning as I was waiting for my name to be called in the doctor's office. It is exactly this aesthetic approach to time I attempt -- with jagged success -- to apply myself:

He solves the great riddle of living ( Read more... )

Imagine the imagination and generosity it took to make such buildings. Imagine the imagination and generosity it took to respond to such spaces with such words:

( room )

About a year ago, I worked very hard -- for over a year -- on a poetry manuscript I named mere jonathans. Once finishing a first draft of the book, I "workshopped" it in a small group of three other poets who likewise had their own books they were working on. Once going through detailed note-making for editing, I felt exhausted, done with it. I ( Read more... )