Bird in Space Then I dreamt about Brancusi’s statue, Bird in Space: bronze, smooth and sleek. Flowing and going. Never static. Moving but not just through space. Moving as if there were nothing around it to cause friction. After all, what can a bird in space have friction with? A relative, a lover,...
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Origins and Endings Part 3 – final installment
If the observer effects the observed than something changes what you’re reading as you read along. Maybe if you’re reading about a single celled creature you create a multiple celled organism by this act that was formally believed to be relatively passive. A quiet evolution could be taking place all over the country. It...
Origins and Endings Part II
“Now what?” you might ask yourself, questioning the very nature of your freedom. You might even long for the time when your life was as uncomplicated as your single celled relatives. It works this way. There is a direct connection between the two threats. In the black hole you’re diminished and in the...
Origins and Endings – part 1
Changed utterly. Squished. Squashed. Flattened on the platen of time. Irrevocably transformed. The same power of profusion and fullness that brought hydroelectric power to the juices flooding your life, filling your cellular sacs, juicing your joints and bringing spit to your lips is thrown into reverse. And everything...
Nic on notice
With humor as a backdrop, the “memoir” style narrative will feel familiar to those that have read contemporary writers in search of self and soul. What we leave behind in the dark of our minds and histories can boomerang back through our psyches. All you need is a catalyst, or a home made bomb....