Fish In the Afternoon

To do one thing today and another tomorrow


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  • 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

  • The Salamander

    The Salamander

    “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Being or becoming animal; having-been, to-be, growling out feral subjectivity. I am an organism, walking-grasping, shaking boots into lizard echoes of desert ferocity. Awoo! Howl down the hallows, human glares menacing from the lightpost… Continue reading

  • Anima Mundi

    Anima Mundi

    “…we must declare that this Cosmos has verily come into existence as a Living Creature endowed with soul and reason… a Living Creature, one and visible, containing within itself all the living creatures which are by nature akin to itself.” Plato, Timaeus, 30b-d What is form? Is the form that which forms or that which is formed? … Continue reading

  • The Waves in Me

    The Waves in Me

    “There is no small pleasure in sweet water.” Ovid, Letters from the Black Sea I went to the ocean recently. Ocean currents are an emergent phenomenon. From the interaction of wind, heat, salt, and a complex system of internal flows and breaks, the whole of the sea moves and rocks – back-and-forth, back-and-forth. This movement… Continue reading