"...and I'm lonesome when you're around."

"...to build on hearts is a foolish thing,
That all things break, love, and beauty,
Till Oblivion tosses them into his pocket
To pawn them off to Eternity!"

       2006

Like His Morrow

Surfeited with sunlight, we dreamt of December. The sun, a laggard blackbird, mistaking our winter reveries for reveilles, woke with a start. He chased the dying light hurriedly over the horizon, dragging the final flagging scraps of the afternoon with him; they flickered green before tumbling towards warmth. We nursed ( Read more... )

I am perched on an electrical box listening to the farmers throwing boxes and stacking apples. Up the hill, the tires of an ambiguous white van crackle through the woods. In town, a girl walks patiently through the thoroughfare: happy, but baffled as to why we chose this world. Did we ever really get a choice? I know I didn't and neither did my ( Read more... )

Meglio soli che mal accompagnati.

I received news today that Jon Nödtveidt, singer/guitarist/songwriter of Dissection, killed himself. It is a sad, sad day.

"On the night of the 16th he was found dead after an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He also supposedly placed an open Satanic Bible and lit candles in a circle around himself before death."

Hail, Jon! May you torture ( Read more... )

"And you would die just to feel again ( Read more... )

"Was it then I bought a peach? That's as I remember.
From a stall near Charing Cross Station.
It was the first fresh peach I had ever tasted.
I could hardly believe how delicious.
At twenty-five I was dumbfounded afresh
By my ignorance of the simplest things."

Ode To The Wild Within

As the moon strikes rage in the tamed man's eyes,

Hands once slaves set the dead concrete ablaze;

Reborn in drops of smoldering gray lies,

Both man and earth stand purged of their false face;

As the unfettered howls of the wild pack

Shatter the chains of the thrallish, pitiful pet,

Once a mere shadow of her primordial ( Read more... )

Farewell, internet life. I'll be seeing you when I have more to say ( Read more... )