Making a fetish of phantasms– I catch glimpses of you reflected in store windows of archived avenues… as the earth burns with composting memory, we listen to the wind-pitched speech of rifting rain. From the mere notion of you, much less your arrival, I wonder: Why did you call me to this place … a [...]
Entries from June 2010
On a Poem’s Hatred of Poets
June 22, 2010
Depression’s Hoarded Prayers
June 17, 2010
Although, I have made my home in being lost, I recognize you: You are: The homunculus of my aspirations, lost as well, squatting amid the ruins of my towering rage. Granted, like you, my prevailing sense of self has been besieged by contretemps and coincidence; even more like you, I am enraptured by the distraction. [...]
A Zionist State of Mind, A Dreamscape Of Ghosts: One Jew’s Hard Awakening
June 2, 2010
Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise — the folly of ethnic exclusion and [...]
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