Pivotal definitions in the progression of Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death. Despair Self: “The self is the conscious synthesis of infinitude and finitude that relates itself to itself,…… Read more “Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death”
Ancient
The wild tossing in the trees above me can be nothing but an ancient dance of pure joy; lady Wind is rushing through the scene, darting this…… Read more “Ancient”
conservation of matter / energy
woke this morning, lifted salty eyes to a small window frosted with chill. condensed upon the pane: night’s dew from my cheeks and shining eyes, transformed. outside,…… Read more “conservation of matter / energy”
Fragile Feet Hold On
the day is finally peaceful enough for me to sit. Still. __________________ small birds cheep, tweet, warble, sing small songs & weave small loves of small things…… Read more “Fragile Feet Hold On”
Articulate__
c. Mary Kathryn Gough, 2000, b&w film Portrait of Writing.
.:snow on tree trunks:.
light laces, sharply curving– splits, forks through dark trees lancing upward, lightning-like into inky blackness, numerical arms branching, breaking earth Open and arcing out into Air. soft…… Read more “.:snow on tree trunks:.”
Thoughts
You can see the Island of Crete from this ruin. Gorgeous view down. I remember kinda wishing I had some color Fujifilm perhaps, just for the sea’s…… Read more “Thoughts”
Goodness
~*~ Good music, like Good anything in life, this life, so cannily, so cleverly and contextually compacted that, in the way of Good sake, its most intrinsic…… Read more “Goodness”
Meteora__Mary
sorry – not the perfectest print/scan ever. a few white specs. 😦 This was a classmate of mine in a monastery in Meteora. We were really high…… Read more “Meteora__Mary”
Writer’s Quotes
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”…… Read more “Writer’s Quotes”
Literature’s Unifying Force
Mary Kathryn Gough 11/11/05 Project #2 The Unifying Force of Kafka’s Literature: Drawing a Dual-Hearted World Together in Unity of Spirit “Could not then art and literature…… Read more “Literature’s Unifying Force”
Writing the Future. . .
c. Mary Kathryn Gough, 2005 Photoshop
In Late November…
It is late November (yet again) and I have come across a beautiful lil’ post by C.B. Wentworth on gratitude. Suddenly filled with Thanksgiving, even here in…… Read more “In Late November…”
.Rest~
.rest ~ why is it that by night the world draws on garments of familiarity (comforting as an old and beloved blanket: a gentle guise devised of…… Read more “.Rest~”
Matter.
don’t feel like turning myself on my head just to look at the world with new eyes. to see it all through glass or crystal, doesn’t matter.…… Read more “Matter.”
Wings IV
i. wings, great w i d e silverswimming wings overhead drew a single shadow on the ground, in my heart of hearts. darker than the pupils of…… Read more “Wings IV”
Embracing Change
c. Mary Kathryn Gough, 2001-2004, (published in College LitMag, Dialogue on blue-lined binder paper)
Idiolalia 