“The Great Stage”
“Invisibly, the sun had now set. The sun makes the utter difference between an apparently living and a seemingly dead nature. As he plays on the water, a thousand transcendental thoughts pass through my mind. Each mirror glint on the sea reflects the Consciousness that put it there. As he reflects on the ephemerals of […]
Continue reading“Early Days”
“The first glimpses came in early childhood when the coarse wooden bottom of the cocktail table disc spun round and round above his tiny guiding hand. A brass metal band engirdled the rim of this furnishing and created, in his new-to-the-world sensitivity, the intoxicating dizziness that dervishes derive from their own endless spinning. Its underbelly […]
Continue reading“Shopping with Mom”
“Worse, far worse, though than accompanying their mother to the grocery store was trailing behind her as she shopped for her own clothing. This experience exemplified for the boys a male rite of passage through which they would later have to pass as one half of a couple. The brothers would enter the women’s discount […]
Continue reading“Autumn”
“Autumn meant the return to school, which he loved. It meant broad, dehydrated, and brittle oak leaves colored in raw sienna and cinnamon, that crunched like Frosted Flakes under his intentional footsteps. It meant raking dry, moist, and semi-rotten leaves into vegetative tumuli upon which he and the neighbor kids threw themselves in gleeful abandon. […]
Continue reading“What Love Is”
“But Love could not continue to exist under the false, hard light of mental man. On the polarities of the cross of the material-thing, she would be sacrificed. She could not truly be perceived as something other than himself. Only in that state of awareness wherein an oceanic unity prevailed, making all its own, could […]
Continue reading“Ecstatic Dancer”
“Keats’s sharpest veer from truth, as I saw it, came in his chosen path to what we both understood to be the Unity underlying the labradorescence, the variability of appearance based on vision angle, of dualistic “reality.” For him it came through ecstatic dance and drugs. In dance, he claimed, he could discover moments when […]
Continue reading“Moon Night”
“It was an almost fully moonlit sky, only a mouse nibble was missing from circular perfection. Phalanxes of bruised cloudlets, arrow-headed and multitudinous, sailed in silence across the soft shining disk. At times the moon would win out, as if Cosmic Intelligence or conscious clarity had prevailed in the heavens or in the soul of […]
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