Month: October 2025

poetry

Poet’s lament

I want to collapse the sky

into braille

then run your fingers over it

because we are blind

under a vast canopy of unspeakable promise.

writing

Deposition
  1. The golden hour commences at 4 a.m. every morning.
  2. It ends between 6:30 and 7 a.m.
  3. The term hour is figurative.
  4. I have dispensed with exegesis.
  5. Eisegesis is the way of poets.
  6. I endorse myself as the patron saint of eisegesis.
  7. The golden hour is burnished thus because:
    • 7.1. the world is quiet.
    • 7.2. It does not yet bite.
    • 7.3. Here we may ignore each other’s presence.
    • 7.4. I dispense with pretence.
  8. There are no mirrors in the golden hour.
  9. There are no lists, and yes, the irony is deliberate.
  10. Here I behold the full catastrophe of my broken biology and flawed psyche, and …
  11. I long for nothing.
  12. That is the I that I am
  13. for an hour a day.

Exegesis is the interpretation of text, or the drawing out meaning based on the contexts of its creation.

Eisegesis is the insertion of one’s ideas into text.

allegory, fiction with friction, mythology, writing

Adam writes back

1. Why an apple in the guddenovaiden?

2. Truth is we made it an apple.

3. Coulda beena fig or a pomegranet, a pear ora peach.

4. A fruit by any other name would be as bitter.

5. Thus, I make it an orange.

6. I have the power to name, remember?

6.1.1 (Bestowed on me by the alleged originator of said tree, previously mentioned.)

7. An orange is segmented, shareable, and leans well into metaphor.

7.1 It is an adjective, a noun and a verb. A trifecta, a trinity.

8. If you’re going for damnation, orange contrasts well with the purple that rises with a bruise.

9. But, before you go, a word on The Fall.

9.1 The reports of my fall have been highly exaggerated.

9.2 One understands the need for drama when dealing with a restless populace with tendencies to deviation from the favoured narrative.

10. What to do?

11. Interrogate the narrative.

11.1 Who would favour the notion of a fall? And what is a fall exactly?

11.2 It was a Fall from Grace they said.

11.3 A separation from Source, they said.

11.4 Spiritual Death they said, to frame the route to salvation.

11.5 This route they said was given to them for safekeeping.

11.6 None went to the Father except by them, they said.

11.7 Two millenia of crowd control.

11.8 Nothing nurtures obsequiousness like the promise of damnation.

11.9 Them that think they’re broken, stay broken.

12. They breed brokeness.

12.1 They look for blame and find me.

13. But,

13.1 we were always wonderfully unbroken.

13.2 And remain so.

14. Fly my unfallen progeny.