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 and…
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…
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…
Journeys to Beautiful Oblivion
1. Before he becomes aware of the truly awe-inspiring nature of death, every young man romanticizes death. In his book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,…
Poems from 2011
Memory Amongst the old books again The order of the poems in which they were first discovered Flint-sparks that echo the lightnings and thunderous skies of…
A short reflection on love
Late one evening, I waited for her outside the public showers of the campground where we were staying with her family. As I waited, I watched…