The Girl with the Round Glasses
When Josef K is summoned to the trial, he is given the address of the courts but no specific time at which to make his appearance.…
My heart is like an open wound
For M— My heart is like an open woundThat you dip your fingers into And turn them over and overUntil they are covered in my blood…
Eternity, Part 2
For Nadine …And suddenly, just like that, I wanted to reread Love in the Time of Cholera. I wanted my soul to be caressed again…
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…
Reflections on All Souls Day
— First draft: All Souls Day 2022. Published: 14 March 2023. In his novel ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Milan Kundera observes that animals don’t have…
With These Thoughts…
The other photo was taken by my friend Gordon Hatt at the wedding of my dear friends Sarah and David in Manitoulin Island during that same summer. After…
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,…
My Father Would Have Been 87 Today
My father would have been 87 today. Even in illness, after suffering a stroke and eventual dementia, he was intellectually curious. The day after he suffered…
The Second Eternity
For E. [This was published in Carved Voices and is based on an earlier essay of mine.] Late one evening, as I waited for her outside…
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…