All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Antonin Artaud

For the Leaving of Nelson Mandela and the Returning of Harrison Okene.

Five Independent Degrees of Freedom

Therein we travel immeasurable distances in a split second.

Mass of Saint Sėcaire

Pictures of a mirror, with two gentle stipulations.

At the Twilight, a Moon

Nuances appearing like cherry blossoms on water..

The Jury Was Present, but Elsewhere.

I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that's what I should have done.......Jeffrey Dahmer

96 Silver Spurs

recalcitrant beasts of burden..

Secrets of preambulatory displacements..

excerpt of 77 minute track of "the Higher Elevation recordings of August 2013"

Opal Marie Petty was 16 yrs old in 1934 when she began to see a dark lurking man mocking her and winding scrub weed around his neck outside of her window. Her God fearing parents were persuaded by the Doctor to have her institutionalized when she began digging her own grave in the Texas dirt with a butcher knife. She was packed up with a simple red dotted dress and sent into the mental hospitals which during the Depression Era meant that conditions were grim, meager, desperate- patients slept on concrete floors and tended each others needs since the staff were cruel and far between. Opal's custodial care in treatment of her mental illness consisted of 35 years of work in the hospital laundry where she earned $2 a week. Eventually 51 years passed and Opal's sister took to concern and fought the state of Texas for release. In the passing of time that was to follow, Opal recovered as well as could and took an interest in making clothes for the 6 dolls she bought with the earnings from the hospital laundry and treated them as her babies she never had due to forced sterilization. She began to play the piano and took delight in choosing colors with which to paint her fingernails and then she died on a fine, reckless spring day in the month of march in the year of someones Lord, 2005.

Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad was born on 30 September 1207 in the province of Balkh in present day Afghanistan. Thus his name Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi. He is known as Rumi in the west.

Listen to the reed and the tale it tells, How it sings of separation...

چه تدبیر ای مسلمانان که من خود را نمیدانم - نه ترسا و یهودیم نه گبرم نه مسلمانم نه شرقیم نه غربیم نه بریم نه بحریم - نه ارکان طبیعیم نه از افلاک گردانم نه از خاکم نه از بادم نه از ابم نه از اتش - نه از عرشم نه از فرشم نه از کونم نه از کانم نه از دنیی نه از عقبی نه از جنت نه از دوزخ - نه از ادم نه از حوا نه از فردوس رضوانم مکانم لا مکان باشد نشانم بی نشان باشد - نه تن باشد نه جان باشد که من از جان جانانم دویی از خود بیرون کردم یکی دیدم دو عالم را - یکی جویم یکی گویم یکی دانم یکی خوانم ز جام عشق سرمستم دو عالم رفت از دستم - بجز رندی و قلاشی نباشد هیچ سامانم اگر در عمر خود روزی دمی بی او بر اوردم - از ان وقت و از ان ساعت ز عمر خود پشیمانم الا ای شمس تبریزی چنان مستم در ین عالم - که جز مستی و قلاشی نباشد هیچ درمانم Why think thus O men of piety - I have returned to sobriety I am neither a Moslem nor a Hindu - I am not Christian, Zoroastrian, nor Jew I am neither of the West nor the East - Not of the ocean, nor an earthly beast I am neither a natural wonder - Nor from the stars yonder Neither flesh of dust, nor wind inspire - Nor water in veins, nor made of fire I am neither an earthly carpet, nor gems terrestrial - Nor am I confined to Creation, nor the Throne Celestial Not of ancient promises, nor of future prophecy - Not of hellish anguish, nor of parasitic ecstasy Neither the progeny of Adam, nor Eve - Nor of the world of heavenly make-believe My place is the no-place - My image is without face Neither of body nor the soul - I am of the Divine Whole. I eliminated duality with joyous laughter - Saw the unity of here and the hereafter Unity is what I sing, unity is what I speak - Unity is what I know, unity is what I seek Intoxicated from the chalice of Love - I have lost both worlds below and above Sole destiny that comes to me - Licentious mendacity In my whole life, even if once - Forgot His name even per chance For that hour spent, for such moment - I’d give my life, and thus repent Beloved Master, Shams-e Tabrizi - In this world with Love I’m so drunk The path of Love isn’t easy - I am shipwrecked and must be sunk.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely indistinguishable... Loren Eiseley, September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977

we boiled bones from those that fell before us and salted wines of useless oily ventures.
we prepared a tincture of desiccated leaves which were exquisite and floated like small universes in which we could be content with the world as is, once again.
such is the frailty of dreams.

The writer must appeal.. to men conversant with the latent springs & occasional perversions of the human mind. Charles Brockden Brown, 1798