Even the city is nervous high tension wires run between all the rigid structures shoulders hunched high even in the stuttering sunshine of changing seasons. Who are we, infinitessimal creatures made of weft and fragile cables to be different? WhoRead more…
The One Thing You Must Do – Rumi
There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there’s nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have doneRead more…
Advice for Overachievers (from Icarus)
When flying the wings do not hold up the sky They push on the fallen shadow until it becomes small and the earth curves A delicious hanging from heaven. How else could it work?
Only
Only while doing do we grasp you Just in the labor of our hands you take shape Thoughts are ghosts driving us out of the glorious world. Each mind is fabricating itself We feel the edge when the scissors fallRead more…
The 2 Lives
Don’t you think it’s like our 2 hands, the inner life and the outer? Just look… at your hands, almost the same with different capacities lines, but different lines. In the outer life, I am a squirrel, Busy, frantic, obsessedRead more…
Empath Intro
I wanted to bring the sexy down just a little and clear up what was happening, while still giving a fun tantalizing. Listen to Pól read the intro He was breathing hard from the Pilates routine. There was no ReformerRead more…
Preface to Empath
I wanted to give a context and some lure and some jazz to the beginning of the story, so I added a glimpse of the non-happy ending of Empath to the Preface: Listen to Pól read the preface My nameRead more…
Pelican
The waves on the thin water of the bay are white speedboats, zooming, zooming in. The little sandpipers ducking and bobbing and tweeting their handmaiden dances under the watchful eye of their skylark guards, broad-winged and sharp. Just one pelican,Read more…
Brothers Grimm Backward
what if this 9-5 life is the fairy tale? what if I arrive home and my dog who loves me only slightly less than the ball, shows no interest in my scent? if there is someone else in my houseRead more…
Wait, people live *here*?
Maybe you’ve been up in the remote Rockies where the air straight overhead is a deep ocean blue, and the thin extremity veins of the roads peter out at rock formations that point roundly at the mountains as if toRead more…