Thursday, January 29, 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Postmodern Humor

the fact that i find this funny speaks to how big of a nerd i am and how much i love 1) foucault, 2) postmodern theory, 3) critical theory

Monday, January 26, 2009

Randomness


I had found you once again--after years of not talking, years of letters started but thrown away, years of wondering if this was finally the end of knowing you.  I had found you...and realized that even standing before you, I had lost you.  There was something in your face, something that said you had stopped believing that life would change or get any better.  I could recall days when your face was the only thing that made me believe in the promise of some future where the wind tastes like salt and the stars stand stark in the sky.  Looking at you now, I couldn't find anything that was left of that past or that future. It was then that I had to give up on the idea that our lives would converge again in some cosmic way and all the regrets, the losses, the broken promises, and even the world would be righted once again.  And so, I left you that night...  

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Black Paper

this is where the edges
burn and peel
a black ravine
of dead paper
this is where
i tread
like some
ezekiel prophet
talking in my head
the great beasts turn
their wheels
the air tastes like honey
it is when the edges
turn to flakes of dust
that i dance
some ancient dance
and dream
of dense jungles
where rocks speak
and the trees chatter
where my feet
tread whole on the earth
away from the edgework of the paper...EAC