My Daughter… Do not wipe the lonely tear as it rushes down your face in fear No! Let it yield to gravity’s pull I know it does not make you look cool!   My Agemates… Ask me why my daughter’s…

Is it a forced divorce of familial and familiar neural marriage, earlier wedded at the altar of mutual human recognition, and occasionally consummated through mirror-activity? Is it a forced remembrance of tomorrow’s Absence? A forced re-education of memory? Death: I…

Is it a retreat from a conscious coherence into an unconscious incoherence? If so, will death, even as the finest ash, not slip into the quantum world of wave-particle duality? And if so, what is death but a continuous existence?…

Is it a song sang as a quivering question to summon answers from scared spirits? Listen carefully: feel the frightened instruments; taste the tremble of the drums on dazed eardrums; hear the slingshots of sounds hurled towards the gods… Death:…

Of mute drums and snarling sheep Of thunder in tummies and cowing ears Of coiled thoughts and happy fists Of tumbling eagles and sleepless tunes And above all, thoughts of homeless thoughts! The seeming homelessness of my thoughts: They make…

How it is that, in the quantum tango we call life, Mercy can tackle and mock Cruelty’s efforts to entangle, breaking its icy, clawing hands on the rocky shores of love?! And yet, in this random universe, seen from whichever…

What do I remember? Slippery certainty, and the solidly of a suckle on a teat; a slap to snap my mouth out of the attempt to toy with it,all efforts to draw out milk from mum’s breasts having yielded nil.…

What makes me wonder? My grandmother, Africa a fleeting fragment of faith in a memory in full flight; a summoning of sad sounds and shocked silences: a sobbed question: ‘Oh Africa, why have you left me, why?’ Death, a silent…

  What makes me wonder? How, in peering deep into Deep Time, we tiptoe on the wings of escaped light, into the heart of ancient violence. How, through the past prism of present heat, we peer into promised pain; for…