According to the OED, the etymological origin of route is from a Latin phrase has more to do with rupture or breaking that with directing motion, tracking or linkages. Route as the edge of the jigsaw pieces, rather than the sidewalk. I am curious ...

Patience has never been a strong suit. (So, too, the spelling--patients, patience. A not-very-helpful mneumonic once given: Nurses must have a lot of ______ when dealing with their ______...) ...

How well the Orphics understood the softness of that which separates our hearts from this world. 

How they understood fragility and richness.

The Janus-face of proximity & distance, beauty & opportunity cost is making itself felt along various avenues right now--work, life, work-life, memory. In a strange & wonderful essay titled "Circles," Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us: "The eye is the ...

More & more I find myself attracted to moments in language that seem full of overreaching, slippage, over-ambitious multiple meanings. When words (a word) starts to carry so many meanings, it begins to undo itself. Derivation, for example. The lov...

1. The process by which raw (cane) sugar is heated, softened & separated into 'mother liquor' and crystals. In order to render 'purified' crystals, the raw mass is combined with a concentrated, heavy syrup while heating & the resulting 'magma' is ...

Life, lately, has been full of encounters that seem to lead to perspective. The floating horizon, heat waves rolling on asphalt. In optical terms, the relationship between the apparent size of an object and how far it is from you (distance & heigh...

On land, over sea, under grey skies again. Contemplating resiliency, absence & essentialisms during this first day in Finland. Accepting & trying to feel out what to hold, when to let yourself fold. The difference made by coffee. By three o'clock ...

Reading Auden again tonight. Feeling the shaping of his phrasing, breath and heft of the lines. Auden is a late but constant love, an odd & fitful comfort. He dwells so beautifully in sorrow, so unsentimentally in muck. And when he is happy (which...

Tonight, my Kickstarter campaign made its goal. I still have a few days to go, which means that any support from here on out goes to lessen the amount I expected to have to dig out of my savings. I am thrilled, relieved and humbled. It has been es...

Tonight, working took on an almost three card montee-like flavor. Issues of similarity, substitution, difference, proximity, distance all rolling around & shading & blurring. And then, the reveal. The unexpected face. In the spirit of this play, I...

I've been absorbed in work & writing linked to the administrative and/or money-generating aspects of life lately, feeling very small and distant from creative projects & the essential energy they require. A couple of days ago, however, in the mids...

I've been struggling with a current writing project???a one-woman show, commissioned by & for & in collaboration with a friend who is a performing artist. The show began, in theory, as an adaptation of something I'd already written (and failed at, f...

Cixous: Extreme FidelityIn libininal economies funtions, we themselvesin are traits the outset in this worked on most amusing visible: at have worked be called texts???and all their the story world, of always on the story of libidinal moment or arti...

I would have said it feels misdirected, precious, blunted, even frivilous to call a book sexy. And then, there was Writing, Marguerite Duras. This is absolutely, essentially, wonderfully sexy. Sensuous, abundant, blooded. It is necessary to hold t...

Cerium. Dysprosium. Erbium. Europium. Gadolinium. Holmium. Lanthanum. Lutetium. ??? Neodymium. Praseodymium. Samarium. Scandium. Terbium. Thulium. Ytterbium. Yttrium. Oh. And Shelly's favorite, Promethium. [cf. Bayan Obo.] *image courtesy Lettre Sau...

It's growing late on the West coast, and the neighborhood is filling with the shrieks and cracks of fireworks. These sounds have grown steadily, through the nights previous to this. Abita (my dog) has decided this is reason enough to invade the fo...