But the gate to perfection wouldn’t budge. We pressed ( Read more... )

He smiles at me, and his bloody hands wave ( Read more... )

In vain I feign inebriation ( Read more... )

I had my turn ( Read more... )

When it came in my youth it took most of my flesh ( Read more... )

It’s rare for me to aver anything with much confidence these days, so I hope I will be forgiven any taste of professorial arrogance here; it certainly sounds pretentious for anyone to make declarations about ‘true art’, whatever that’s supposed to be. However, having waded through the murky depth of its trappings, and then found terra firma, having ( Read more... )

I slept a few winks, I had a few drinks ( Read more... )

So we stayed up until three, like we would years ago ( Read more... )

Let the heavens watch, let me stand alone ( Read more... )

Let the heavens be blind, let the moon be put out ( Read more... )