Fish In the Afternoon

To do one thing today and another tomorrow


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  • The Ghost

    The Ghost

    “Only an atheist can be a good Christian.” Ernst Bloch, Atheism in Christianity To be read aloud, if possible. Alien mother the not-here stainglass / frame / the invisible. Silence. Hereafter we-ghost. Stark pony the-eversalt-ocean fibers glass the Renaissance. Paleaether, heretongue the gargoyle, medieval monks that practice Thomas pebble manuscripts that glory glory. The time-machine… Continue reading

  • Killing Ashton, or Burning the ash Tree

    Killing Ashton, or Burning the ash Tree

    “Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.” Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm Content note: Discussion of transphobia and genocide. Queerphobic slurs. For Harriett. φ1 – Language is alienated music. φ2 – What is a world? An old carpenter; Demiurge dusted with ruddy-rusted earth,… Continue reading

  • Like a Rolling Stone

    Like a Rolling Stone

    “Stone. A stone butch is a woman who doesn’t allow herself to be fucked.” Regan McClure, “Stone Femme” I am a mountain. No one enters the mountain. But the mountain enters, the tectonic plates move. When I was a kid, I wrote a story about a man disassembling a mountain. Unlike Sisyphus, the man must… Continue reading

  • The One and the Many

    The One and the Many

    “There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete.” Parmenides, Fragment B 8.1-4 1. There is One. 2. The One is Unique – itself-in-itself and irreplaceable with any other. 3. The One is all,… Continue reading

  • Ozarkia

    Ozarkia

    Zzzzz-t, zzzzz-t, zzzzz-t Mosquito Spirit is moisture. Condense and evaporate, flux-pond motioning in formless apeiron. Swampy matter sparses and denses into life, human-soul animal-ghost. Drink from this bread and eat from this wine, mosquito seraphim bzzing holy holy holy; fire-alight in alligator-tongue-melody, reptile-psalms in excelsis deo. Time dollops space like the hills and hollers of… Continue reading