"I pray for your missing body” I pray for your missing body to be granted justice. For it to be granted a name. I pray I’ll have a place to go to cry. I pray for those who are good and for the others, because even if they have no heart, I do.
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FOR MY FRIENDS, IN REPLY TO A QUESTION I’m okay. And, of course, I’m not, but I go through the motions. I wake up to the alarm’s howl, even when the word in my body is no. I dress in livid colors. I blacken the hairs of each eyebrow. I bake & braise & pickle. I write & read & lose hours to the blur of the television. I sit for hours in the bath, my skin puckering. I don’t know if I’ll ever go home again. I don’t know who I’ve seen…
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LETTER TO THE FATHER Now that my lord more closely resembles a hunk of meat with two eyes turned toward the dark ceiling from the gurney where likely you will not die alone only because not even able to swallow your saliva yourself in the company of this tube alone that feeds you I ask myself if mother’s ban against confessing to my lord the amorous habits of my mucous membranes is still in place and if indeed you would love me the less you knew about how much rubbing…
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THE CHANCE OF YOU ASKING MY NAME IS DECLINING BY THE SECOND You can guarantee the police search your coat when you’ve got nothing to say. Set your face to dead calm staying silent, your unloaded arms by your sides. Being slammed to the ground can also be a way of satisfying certain physical needs. What I’ve stolen or been dealing, white or the colour of the pavement, well you tell me. What I share, which parts of me provide you with a whole,…
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A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking Chapter 1 – Our Picture of the Universe Chapter 2 – Space and Time Chapter 3 – The Expanding Universe Chapter 4 – The Uncertainty Principle Chapter 5 – Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature Chapter 6 – Black Holes Chapter 7 – Black Holes Ain’t So Black Chapter 8 – The Origin and Fate of the Universe Chapter 9 – The Arrow of Time Chapter 10 – Wormholes and Time Travel Chapter 11 – The Unification of Physics Chapter 12…
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CONTENTS foreword 1 | what is language? 1 2 | what can we understand? 27 3 | what is the common good? 59 4 | the mysteries of nature how deeply hidden? 81 notes 129 index 147 …………………………………… FOREWORD Akeel Bilgrami t h i s b o o k p r e s e n t s a lifetime of refl ection by a scientist of language on the broader implications of his scientifi c work. The title of this volume, What Kind of Creatures Are We? , conveys just…
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I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were…
Read MoreOnce upon a time, there was a dog and cat, called Doggo and Kitty. Doggo was a very handsome dog, with long, thick fur that brushed along the floor, whereas Kitty was a charming and gorgeous cat, with soft, thin fur that felt like silk. The pair of them lived together in a little cottage next to a forest, but unlike most dogs and cats, they got on very well. Although Doggo and Kitty were only small little creatures, they had big dreams. They wanted to be like the Big…
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so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens
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Robert Browning, (born May 7, 1812, London—died Dec. 12, 1889, Venice), major English poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. His most noted work was The Ring and the Book (1868–69), the story of a Roman murder trial in 12 books. The son of a clerk in the Bank of England in London, Browning received only a slight formal education, although his father gave him a grounding in Greek and Latin. In 1828 he attended classes at the University of London but left after half a session. Apart from a journey to St. Petersburg in…
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