[A] certain German-speaking Trappist abbey in the last century was smothered with frescoes of the most alarming kind. Symbols of death and dissolution confronted the eye at every turn, and in the refectory the beckoning torso of a painted skeleton, equipped with an hour glass and a scythe, leant, with the terrifying archness of a […]
DEATH
“THE WORD ‘I'”: A POEM BY FRANZ WRIGHT
THE WORD “I” Harder to breathe near the summit, and harder to remember where you came from, why you came Winter’s harder, and harder to say the word “I” with a straight face, and sleep– who can sleep. Who has time to prepare for the big day when he will be required to say goodbye […]
JANET M. KING: OCTOBER 11, 1927-SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Her patience at the airfield, in this world of machines and offices that is beyond her, waiting without a word, as old women have for millennia all over the world, waiting for the world to pass. And then very small, a bit broken, on the immense ground, toward the howling monsters, holding her well-combed hair […]