The Space Between Myths This is the English translation of a Coptic text that was first found in 1954. I estimate that the codex dates back to the third century of the common era, during the formative years of Christianity. This can be surmised because of the dating of papyrus used in the… Continue reading The Space Between Myths (Florida. May 2004.)
The clay of the path,the murky water of the rice fields and the skin of the people run a fertile red — not with the horrors of the past, but with the moonflux of the earth. This land is pregnant. The thick water between rice stalks reflects the open possibility of the sky above.
When Even the stars did not know where to stand, flame filled the void with his partner the frost. Waiting and teasing, they joined on the brink. Moving to passionate swirls and then me. I was alone with a blackness that fell, speckled by wandering stars. Nothing green grew. Not one shore, sea, nor cooling… Continue reading When (The Netherlands. Winter 2002.)
Twenty-nine years, six months and four days, and everything is back where it was. Saturn turns her head just the same and her rings dangle from fingers threatening to fall without gravity onto a new slate of a floor, the same blank slate they rested on before you wrote on it. … Continue reading Saturn’s Return (Thailand. Summer 2010.)