What Are Words Worth?

Why use unfamiliar words, strange words, foreign words, words spelled with the Greek alphabet? To show off – right? Wrong.   Not showing off  – but showing out and in. -Showing out to see the interrelationships of words with each other. -Showing in to see the...

Theology Without Theos

In the most exquisitely refined theologies there is no need to name a god. The category ‘divinity’ would be superfluous, an addition that subtracts, distracting our affinity from the innate attractive grandeur of the world. κενοθεοφωνίa– god chatter...

An Explication of:  The Dead

The main thrust of the poem is the preciousness of life. These subterraneans have learned so much about life from death, the brevity, the preciousness. From the grave the dead now realize how precious life is, and how much of their lives they have spent on petty...

The Dead

The dead are watching. They are listening. They are distraught, knowing what we don’t know and worse, don’t want to know. These subterraneans have learned so much about life from death, the brevity, the preciousness. They miss the earth, knowing now how much of earth...

It’s All About Me

Wherever I go I’m always there, waiting for you with minutes to spare. I look in the mirror, it’s the same old face, I hope for another, but there’s never a trace. I didn’t believe it at first, it couldn’t be true, I thought for sure it was all about you. When you say...