Of Demons and Dreams is simply a new category of word sketches for a bigger writing project.
The night assigns us its magic task. To unravel the universe, the infinite ramifications of effects and causes, all lost in that bottomless vertigo, time.
From “Sleep” by Jorge Luis Borges
Dedicated to Miles, the “fearless gentleman.”
A Dream Exchange.
Women who know about scorpions produce male children who live without fear.
These women know all about the greedy claws and the thin, segmented tail, that curves forward over the ... read more »
Tagged dreams, fiction, stories
Took this photo while walking home the other night. This boutique flowershop always draws me in…as if there is an unfinished story in the plants and flowers…and if I stayed just long enough I might hear it to the end this one time.
“Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so much mean the niggling occurrences of daily life. Rather it encompassed the grand stories that caused some change in the world and were remembered in ensuing years as, if not histories, at least folktales and myths. [...]
Though in later years she never could remember ... read more »
Tagged books, charles de lint, color, photography, stories, tree
Four
This is the final of the Da Vinci Dreams series (four was the intention from the beginning); Tuesday’s Torrent stories will continue depending on time and “creative clutter” while I return to the work-in-progress manuscript. I want to thank Annika Ruohonen for this collaboration. Her photographs offer a sensitive and unique perspective and stand in a class all their own.
Da Vinci Dreams :: Quietus
“Of the shadow that moves with: there shall be seen shapes and figures of men and animals which shall pursue these men and animals wheresoever they flee; and the movements of the one shall be as those of the other, but it shall seem a thing ... read more »
Tagged fiction, stories
Three
Da Vinci Dreams :: Time Blur
“Of the lights carried before the dead: they will make light for the dead.” ~ from “Prophecies” by Leonardo Da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, George Braziller.
Photograph Courtesy of Annika Ruohonen
I once asked Sarband “How do leaves dry?” and she, being hard of hearing at her age, heard “How do leaves die?”
“They don’t die!” she replied, more agitated than I would have expected regardless of the question. She continued, “The plant or the tree kills them off! Become a burden. Not as efficient as they age.”
Sarband always held onto the broom as if ... read more »
Tagged fiction, stories
I don’t claim I can write poetry. It is not my ‘medium’ of expression or telling a story. Perhaps this goes back to the years when I ‘stopped’ writing. I felt poetry—my version (given what I wrote felt incomplete), not what I considered poetry—was my way out of writing seriously. Later I decided it wasn’t even poetry but just lists of fragments showing my perception of a particular instance. Words were my play-doh; I simply recorded the telling details; I affectionately labeled these notebooks my ‘forensic lab.’
If there are as many types of poetry as there are those who claim to be poets, then there are even more definitions of what constitutes as ... read more »
Tagged art, process of writing, stories, twitter, words
