The Candidate

To be sheltered among echoes and mirrors, that’s what the candidate wanted, no hard shiny surface silent, reflected image, resounded voice. In the crowd, the politics of duplication, every thought identical, the governance of mimocracy. Does the candidate imitate the...

U-turn

the whole world the hole whirled flung toward reversals  a charge, a sally, a rally a tinny tiny finale      

This Is No Private Country

This is no private country. no one’s exclusive club. America is res publica a republic, a public thing. America belongs to no one, not even a favored God, who historically has demonstrated a preference for divine right kings and sometimes queens, a monarch, all power...

A CASE FOR WEAK RELIGION

inspired by Gianni Vattimo  Would the world be better off with weak religion? I don’t know. I’m just asking. I think so. Weak religion would not claim to know everything, to have all the answers, provide the single solution to multiple woes of humankind. Weak religion...

MEMORY WORKS

It’s tucked, there, behind the grey fold, under the coil of flesh, within the glistening tissue, in formation beside the spelling of the word r e m e m b e r. a valuable member of your mind, filed to be brought forward as needed. Now needed....

Healing

A man is seriously ill.  He has been diagnosed with a life threatening disease.  His brother brings him to a physician who recommends a nearby hospital. The hospital is famous for outcomes of recovery and the restoration of health. The man’s brother delivers him to...