Big slow storms of Jupiter, help sooth us. Sooth us with your patient weather, ochre, gamboge, carmine, grey, swirling storms, giant. And auroras, lightning, huge, cathartic. Let us be like Galileo’s nameless daughter, who threw herself […]
Slow mottled gray skies, the empty plains somewhere in the blown out corridor from Houston to Galveston. Highway and plane noise, far enough for privacy but frisson- near enough for wanderers to run, run the risk […]
I’ve been pecking away at Inform 7 lately on account of its recently acquired Gnome front end. For those not in the know, Inform (and Inform 7) is a text adventure authoring language. I’ve always been […]
In their enthusiasm, they built roads (huge, wide things, six lanes or more, sidewalks) for which they had no buildings, through forest, or through meadow. But to drive them, empty and spacious, is a kind of […]
Black holes are cold, or so I am told. And the bigger, the colder. So voracious and unspacious, they must take it, all in, all in. Even heat. When the universe gets cold enough, (meaning old […]
That great minds think alike is a reflection of the fact that certain ideas have an appeal that is, if not innate, then compelling in context. Hence the use of dot notation in the creation of […]
Skunks All this burning and yet still sodden world: dead skunks along the road I drive homeward, each day, raising smells like the underside of lavender, dust and slate, my dry mouth. They are, each day, […]
I think nothing so honest exists as the huge buzzard, ready, unashamed, to eat that which rots, to eat bowels, to eat the soft grape of dead eye. Luxuriously, they glide, one by one, enormous winged […]
Amen I say to you: the fox which lives in the abandoned building near our cabin means nothing at all. It bears no portents. Molecule by molecule it tumbles through space, much like the rest of […]
“Some hunters dumped a corpse out on your land,” she says, “I tried to catch them, but they slipped past me.” We smelled it, of course, while we walked to shake the last persimmons from the […]