FORGOTTEN PROPHETS

This, bumped up from Jan 22 07: ----- Felt sort of tired, Saturday. Rolled seven times in six days, and not lightly. Kind of creaky when I g...

He wears a half-face mask, understanding its redundancy. He sees it as an ironical comment on -- well, on everything. He wears a long black ...

I saw you yesterday. You were walking by a riverbank. The water slid along imperceptibly beside you, smooth and flat and blue as twilight. Y...

He breathes because he cannot do otherwise. But the burden of it crushes him. He feels himself bending, stooping, hunched now like a giant u...

He sees himself as quiet. It has to do with his place in the world. The eyes he feels on his flesh are filled with bitterness. Perha...

He was born on a Thursday, in the night. The birth was accompanied by no great happiness -- the child was a third boy, and brought nothing ...

He feels himself fading. He feels himself losing his substance. He passes by objects as if he could pass through them. Only habit keeps ...

The mask he wears, the half mask, slips and he leaves it where it falls. You had thought it hid some deformity, but the flesh is unscarred,...

We, disciples of a strange oracle, have noticed our narrowing orbit around a dark and wavering star. We have found ourselves watching fr...

Someone must have been watching H, because without having done anything unusual, he found himself examined and in peril of his life. That so...

Stripped of sarcasm, of humor. Stripped of sentimentality or sincerity, of compassion or rage. Stripped of ego and emotion and intellect and...

The years of solitude had been occupied by duties and by noise, so much that he never noticed how they receded and mounted up. But everyone ...

Cristobal told me today that he’s leaving me for Duane. I’ve been expecting it for weeks now. He’s been moody -- one might almost say sullen...

He sleeps every other night. After his daily sojourn in the land of light, and after his passage through the half-light, he peers from the c...

Are there eyes on him? It is a matter of indifference. His actions are more from compulsion than for reward. More flight than hunt, more ...

Interesting question, isn't it. Real me. Doesn't sound like a question? That's because you took it at face value. If you don...

Dear God -- Thanks for your email. It was nice to hear from you again, after all this time -- last time was 1993, as I recall. I've been...

There can be no impediment to necessity. Even porcupines can mate. Even warthogs find a mate. No magnet has only one pole -- even if it has ...