It begins at the center and spreads, this wave of delusion and absurdity, demolishing the ability to question, to think straight, to distinguish truth from lies or reality from fantasy… It overwhelms any capacity for critical thinking, any logic and common sense in its path. It flips perceptions of reality on their heads, and projects …
Author Archives: Ciel
Romance is a Cat
I am glad of the catwho keeps company with mefrom time to time sittingbeside me on the arm of the chairor on my arm despitemy need to have it freeand sometimes I pause from workor pull her close against me to restslightly purring against my chestand not body-blocking the viewof keyboard and screen… At night …
The Heat of the Day
hearking back to summer on this snow-graced autumn day Heat of the Day The sun glares down on white concretein evening warms, now stings little bare feet.Upon the couch, or floor or chairor… really, anywherea cat can go,limbs akimbo,bellyfur exposed, shestretches out long as cat can be,cat-naps awaythe heat of the day. 2005
When I’m 63
Achey acheyearly wakeyhave to riseopen my eyesmirror’s in there–crazy bed-hair!turn on heathave to eatstart the teabe 63… 2915
Paradise Left
Milton wrote PARADISE LOST from the Victorian Biblical perspective, but that is not the only way to look at or resolve the same mythical problems of suffering and death, and how we got some good, important things to make human life better, and civilization possible. In the accounts of Genesis, Biblical and earlier, the serpent …
Gone
I thought you’d live forever, though I know it can’t be so–I’ve always known I’d lose you, though I thought you’d never go…There’d be time some perfect day to speak the long-unspoken word,To tell you all I needed to, to be sure that you had heard…That there’d be time to listen, to show how much …
Lament For Love
I’m sorry, I can’t love youlike a love should be…Out here I standbeyond the glass,the wall of distancebetween my heartand the world… Love’s sucha quiet subtle thingso easily drowned outby need and wantand hungers wailingfrom a timethe time when childrenlearn to loveby being loved… I’m sorrymy missing piecesmake this puzzlethat is loveforever incomplete…Yet I want to …
Tolkien Tribute: Symbelmyne
Even here the glimmering simbelmyne growsin the ghostly pale green meads and haunted hollowsfar from the hallows somber in their ordered rowswhere our old bones the cold earth slowly swallows. Of certainty indeed no living person knowsand none but guess what after long life followsyet, even here the glimmering simbelyne growsin the ghostly pale green …
The Long Flight Home
A few years ago, my son was on his way home from college for the holidays, but our airport was under assault by snow and wind, and so incoming flights from other airports, like his, were delayed and then cancelled. I started for the airport, a two-hour trip each way in the weather–3 times, only …
The Karpman Triangle
It has been called a ‘trap’ that the Evangelical extremists set for Americans, with accusations against those who demand actual separation between Church and State. It is meant to put their perceived adversaries on the defensive, to use the fairness intent of politcal correctness to promote the sense of the Evangelical extremist’s being treated badly, …
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