Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Rainer Maria Rilke, 1922 I At first I thought, this must be midlife, but then again, it’s been only twenty-two years. I thought perhaps this must be the…
It was a beautiful Saturday morning… Catherine was sitting on her favorite Master-sized sofa, the largest one in the living room; fully relaxed and full of life. Her husband, Richard, was in the kitchen dishing out his food…
Modern technological advancements have made it possible for public engagements to be recorded and accessible to the world. Security cameras are a primary way for people to feel safe in public areas but also a way for the…
I’ve never been a confident driver. This is not to say that I’m an awful driver – I do fairly well on the roads and have yet to have an accident with another vehicle – but I am quite anxious…
‘Border’! The word stands glaring at me as I scan the ‘Irish Times’. My platelets of perception do a quick realignment. I live temporarily near the ‘Border’ of which they speak in Ireland but there is no resonance…
Did I just see her smirk at me? Or was it a look of contempt? I looked at her again, at my reflection, staring blankly at me. Then we both smiled. "It is show time,"…
They tell me to stay positive To look up and look forward Not to bring the darkness with me wherever I go But do they know there was a time when I was only brightness When I laughed…
Dear ______ I have been reading, thinking, rereading and rethinking through what you wrote, and trying to find a way to respond. At the same time, I have been ploughing through Paul Gilroy’s After Empire that you…
The answer beyond the deep blue heavens, The Assembly take up as – ONE, in his sickening uncastrated power gig, would be any governmental official in their sexy scandals and sports car mansions – a strict hand on an apocalypse…
This week couldn’t have been shittier even if Satan had designed it with the sole intention of torturing me. First my mother, now KG, just when I was trying to do everything by the book. I’m really good…
The open lecture you attended during your last days with Bear must have made a deep impression because the tentative attempts you have since made to become lucid in your dreams have not gone unnoticed by your eagle-eyed…
Through my work I explore the cyclical nature of life and decay, as they feed into each other to create a sense of homeostasis in the natural world. All life exists in this constant state of flux. I believe…
The story of our universe begins with a singularity. Due to some inconceivable force, space expanded and matter formed. The stars, the earth, oceans, animals and even our bodies, are all made from this matter that has existed…
What were you thinking, mother When you handed me a package with a watch in it, marking my tenth birthday, as I came to your bed that lonely winter morning? The Rothko painting in the corner an…
The Wedgwood Bed and Breakfast, Melville, Johannesburg. 10.10.2016 Are my eyes opening in a dream? Or is a dream opening my eyes? The furniture in the room floats In steel–grey half–light The side table swims…
Sometimes sitting on top of molehill is no help at all. Particularly, if what you look for is not anywhere nearby, not even at the last ends of farm you reside at. Sometimes spending time seated on top…