an odyssey

 Change the future and change the past.

All moments exist, simultanious

possibility & memory. Us,

trapped by feeble perceptions, last

 to understand dimensions unseen,

we deny eternity, we pray for

another life, a better life, just more,

never wondering what it might mean

until the collapse. With one future lapsed,

possibilities like floodwater, free

to overwhelm, threaten to drown, but we

flail thru the darkness, toward a repast

that will sate our hunger and may bring us

comfort, after pain, on a fair shore.

19 August '20

TL;DR - A new book, from BlacKat Publishing

This collection brings together three of my long poems or poem cycles. As the jacket says, each was written to win a girl, and the last was a success - she's still wearing my ring.

What's in it?

The Myth of Sisyphus - a long poem, written in the spring of 1992 when I spent a semester at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. I had a job shelving in the classics section at the Queen Mother Library, and all of my courses were in (British) poetry. This is the (previously unpublished) result.

A Lover's Discourse - a cycle based on the Roland Barthes text of the same title. Barthes is discussing the impossibility of complete understanding between minds, given that our means of communication does not perfectly calibrate meanings across individuals. The inability of language to capture love is, therefore, a natural example for Barthes, and invites poetic reinterpretation. Some of these have appeared on the blog.

Seven Dream of Nebuchadnezzar - the cycle for which this blog is named. While all of these are online, TL;DR is their first appearance in print.



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