“The American Aristocracy”
“The United States had supposedly turned its back on the old-country ways of class stratification in favor of equality; hence, it could never, in good conscience, acknowledge any system in the country that smacked of aristocratic privilege. So, the wealthy gave lip service to upward mobility and told stories of walking ten miles in the […]
Continue reading“Satisfaction”
What is more satisfying than any victory, more thrilling than any high, more pleasurable than any climax? Weightless flotation in the Eternal Bliss of Pure Consciousness.
Continue reading“Waves”
“As I leaned against the railing overlooking the ocean, the sun sent mini-stars plopping into the water and exploding outward in fulgurations. Waves unfurled themselves against the shore like ingots of gleaming argent metal being flattened out and spread thin. Some of the waves were fashioned purely from light. This image, an apparently material wave […]
Continue reading“The Sun”
“The sun, scintillant cue ball in the sky, luminous Eucharistic wafer, eyeball of God, was now setting over the Pacific. On the top surfaces of the rock outcroppings, pools of water left over from light rains and surging waves resembled jigsaw puzzle pieces waiting to be assembled into some grand design. The sun shot a […]
Continue reading“The Beats”
“The legacy of the Beats still hung heavy over North Beach. Decades had passed, but their presence, in such a compact locale, had been so strong that it still hovered over the place. I saw Kerouac’s image on a wall in a café and read inscriptions detailing what poetry reading had happened here on what […]
Continue reading“Bona Dea”
“Lending credence to the theory that one assumes different genders in various lives, my artist-self once caught, in reverie, the barest glimpse of a figure I ought, as a man, never to have seen. Quite possibly it was a buried memory from a life I had spent as a female, come to this one, in […]
Continue reading“Nothing is Everything”
‘Skylar Seequn observed an immense hall, every inch of which was filled with objects and furnishings of all imaginable sizes, colors, and shapes. The hall was cacophonous and its air replete with odors. But there was no room to sit or dance or pray. “This is everything!” someone told him. He then came to an […]
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