But now shrinks the place where you stand: Where now, stripped by shade, will you go? — Paul Celan

Posts from the ‘Love’ category

Dust in Love

Sexuality is the fire; love and eroticism are the two flames emanating from that fire. This is the theme of Octavio Paz’s last book The Double…

Sister

Having adopted three cats while I lived there, I spent considerable time in the busy waiting room of an animal hospital in the town of Waco,…

Platero

Love and Time

More time is not more eternity. — Juan Ramón Jiménez What if someone or something exists only for a very short interval of time? Would you…

Staying Back

The Bangladeshi psyche is a moral and political waste land today. In this dizzying and disorienting kaleidoscope of decay, one name shines more brightly than anyone…