The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens,Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light—Were all like workings of one mind, the featuresOf the same face, blossoms upon one tree,Characters of the great Apocalypse,The types and symbols of Eternity,Of first and last, and midst, and without end. (William Wordsworth, “The Simplon Pass”) Being-trans is neither… Continue reading

The flow of time is always cruel. – Zelda, Ocarina of Time If I were an ocean, I’d part. Time arts the many, seawaves tending to fall (and no one hears it). Grief parches, babblebrain topics again-and-again the one-who-when — if I stay frozen, maybe the earth will still. Gristlesift hot cast iron, what enchants… Continue reading

Happens is never once. – William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom! I grieve the daughters of the valley. Stormy skies spell silence overhead. Bodyblood golds while the reaper repents. Memories deepwater the trench of my heart, the bonegallows’ child who tempers thou art. I do not haunt says the moth to the caterpillar. I cry. Starlight signals… Continue reading

I was saved by God to Make America Great Again. – Donald Trump, Second Inaugural Address MAGA — Make America Great Again. See also: palingenetic ultranationalism. Capitalism is a ritual. Through quantification, comparison, and exchange, we reproduce patterns of en-habiting that re-shape the world in the image of capital. This is reification and fetishization —… Continue reading

How strange it is to be anything at all. — Jeff Mangum, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Content note: these writings include discussion of mental health, suicide, self-harm, drugs, gender, and sexuality. Most of these are tackled in symbolic ways, but they pop up regularly and many of these were written earnestly by me… Continue reading