Kansas

You, technicolor, have no fears. You, in lights, the water is invitation to Europe, Europe, who now comes to you, not bashful at all, you are, Europe comes to you. The thunder doesn’t make anyone look up, like rabbits, or wonder where the cat carrier is. Back home it means fearful times of tiny footprints […]

Collective Unconscious

This was my favorite show in a long time. First, laboratory glassware with the ink ghosts of crowds living in it. A whole laboratory’s worth. I used to teach at a school with a great old chemistry lab, and stripped and punched and crumbled as the whole building was, the wood cabinets and the […]

Up

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This […]

Ascension

I was a solipsist, to the chagrin of an important boyfriend. I told him I wasn’t sure other people existed, he told me he was afraid I was a sociopath. How do you know, though? Barbara Ehrenreich, in Living With A Mad God, writes about being a solipsist until she was in her early twenties. […]