“They’ve hidden themselves from the world, and all of its teeth.”
Tag: Excerpt
“Cormorant / Confluence / Crocodile”
“To move as a river does, to be carried forward by my own unfolding.”
“Even the Monstrous”
“I was twenty years old when I saw a man throw himself from a window. First dead body I’d ever seen. Let me tell you, real blood is nothing like the movie blood, and real death is nothing like the movie death.”
What Kind of Animal
What Kind Of Animal – one writer’s response to Covid-19 and life under lockdown.
Small Town Blues – or – Things I Lost While Living
The Igby Prize for Nonfiction Winner about the woes and wonders of living in a town with no Wi-Fi.
“The Centennial Game”
“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess,
and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.”
– Terry Pratchett
“One Hundred Lashes”
“And I had done an hellish thing,
And it would work ’em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay
That made the breeze to blow!”
“Apple Tree”
“There were tremors within him.
It began around his left eye, fifty five years ago, and she remembered the exact moment.”
“Mastication (The Wendigo Children)”
“The hands of pitiful women
have sodden their own children,
who became their meat
in the destruction of my people.”
– Lamentation 4:10
Conversation with UMAR TURAKI
“It’s what drives them, whether you are speaking about dealing with temptation, or fighting a dark aspect of your nature … More
“Holding a Wolf by the Ears” – A conversation with SESE YANE
“The illusion that we can understand each other is perhaps the most beautiful of all.” Sese Yane HOLDING A WOLF … More
“Friday Night”
“I don’t know if you know what spinning is, it’s the same as bombing out and it’s the stuff nightmares are made of. It’s the equivalent of a poker player going on tilt. It’s when all composure goes right out of the window.”