what does it mean to see beauty   to see it on a pallid flower petal    the long hair river flowing freely off   an  iris   mixed pudding dark  a round, smooth dome forehead  and beautiful heavenly music     evokes a fire behind my eye    that only can be quenched with salt water    and the steam lifts…

Phantom Limb

 In these times  I've been sewing on these buttons back in   I was looking for skin grabs putting on whatever to hide my nakedness  I've been busy creating and reconstructing  my exoskeleton   these towers that were torn down  brick by brick, holes in the wall   and the whole thing collapsed    And…

 all my friends they built these chains   quietly grinding rocks into grain  quietly grinding statues out of shame a brief recompense    of all my follies and inadequacies      are clamoring at  me     I bit the bait   and I got dragged behind for several miles   and now I'm knee deep in my own debt    …

A brief update on life

Well it's finally come to this, a brief update on the comings and goings of a first year seminary student. Life's been fairly busy, with more time spent reading books, memorizing piles of notecards, and reading even more. There is an endless, unfathomable amount of reading to do, which means sustained amounts of concentration for…