“Eternity at Hand” from “Remembering Eternity”
“Eternity, like the peek-a-boo morning sun, clasping the horizon’s brim, had been close to bursting forth in all its auroral, igniform, blind dazzle. It had lurked just beneath the edge of his world, like an actor straining to hold himself back so as not to make a premature entrance, ready to set the surrounding space […]
Continue reading“The Birth of Spring” from “Remembering Eternity”
“As the earth, kissed by the vernal sun, slowly awoke like a Sleeping Beauty, smelling of warmed, natural perfumes and fecund loins, stretching her dazed limbs, smiling up at the clear skies, everything around her came to life as well. Bird couples swooped and fluttered in delight as they gathered the materials for their new […]
Continue reading“A Magical Moonlight Dance” from “Remembering Eternity”
“Ilona stood several yards from the tent, backdropped by stenciled birches, framed on either side by boulders whose gray emanations made them seem like fallen pieces of the moon. Her arms extended above her head, hands placed together, thumbs hooked. The moonlight flecked her body unevenly: deeply shading the place below her chest, shining bright […]
Continue reading“Friendship” from “The Enlightenment of Joshua Inly”
“They would take walks in Joshua’s neighborhood or in the vicinity of the music store where they often met. Sometimes they talked enthusiastically, surprised and delighted to have someone who, they knew, would immediately understand every word they spoke; other times they would remain speechless, content to look around them at the greening trees, the […]
Continue reading“A Boy’s Vision” from “The Enlightenment of Joshua Inly”
“In a gentle but well-pitched voice, he began to speak. ‘I saw a column of fire climbing up my spine. At certain points, the fire paused and a colorful flower caught its flame. Once the fire reached the top of my head, the entire universe opened up to me. There were huge fields of stars, […]
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Continue reading“Female Glory”
“I remember seeing her standing on the high balcony, backdropped by a hazy range of Leonardo mountains and the vague river snaking by their feet. She was a Pacific Island girl, probably about thirty, at the acme of her feminine beauty. Her form waved up like an ondule-patterned silk, magic to the eyes. Her straight, […]
Continue reading“Divine Music” from “Enlightened Relations: The Life in a Day”
“Now, after sitting down beside him, she hit the “play” button and snuggled close to her lover. Debussy’s L’apres midi d’un faune began. If ever music had emerged directly from the font of the Absolute, still dripping with the silvered beads of divine inspiration, it was this music. As one listened to it, one spied […]
Continue reading“Feminine Glory” from “Enlightened Relations: The Life in a Day”
“She stood before the sun and allowed its rays to worship her feminine glories, for she wore only a cotton robe and had not tied its belt, so that it gaped in the front. Her body looked like a painting done all in pinks and creams: her neck and upper chest resembled a butterfly in […]
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