Monthly Archives: January 2009

‘Twas Begun by the Beetle

The thread broke and it fell. Familiarity would have rushed in if a clatter had followed. If the floor had been just below, no doubt it would have bounced, spun and clicked as it came to a rest. Instead, it’s surface sung in the wind. Dropping past clouds, through darkness and the first beams of [...]

Conflict

All the words slip past in violence… tearing walls and conscience in a rain of sneers. Burdens of proof are lobbed about and pirouette corpses of the simple and confused. But, beneath it we gaze… up in wonder, tasting sacraments that cannot be proved or measured.