Loki has nothing on Aphrodite;
the real trickster can start the siege of Ilium
and have you teary-eyed looking at old pictures
Poems
Work and Time
Preparation protects us from being sneak-attacked
by the long slog of work-over-time; Continue reading
Memento Mori
“Nothing concentrates the mind so much as –”
our demise: the only inevitability we’ll never experience as an actuality;
but to hold one’s mortality in one’s hands, Continue reading
To Eat, To Dispose
Psychosoma hypostatic monism
(the pendulum swings, but its axis is one)
the mind is a body, the body: digestive tract
with a support cast of organs (like thumbs
and brains); “Let us read, mark, and inwardly di-gest”;
Still, Wait, Decay, Emerge
Gress to the glade and grimly grind the grist;
crunch with the crowns, crush the kernel, create Continue reading
