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She Asks for Your Tears, Not Your Toiling.
Soil is the co-relationship of matter, form, and bounded purpose, or creation, that works in the local place, that is known in and only by the local place, and that...
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Earthen Exam
Often, Earth throws diamonds and gold up from her womb as an experiment, to see what our species will do. Cut and color combine clearly under her ultimate heat and...
Why Big Publishers Have Sales Departments
“What were they like, grandpa?” They will ask as they bounce on our knees or maybe they will ask as they kneel at our graves. “They were profitable.” We will...
Seeing Our Gods As Ourselves and Not As They Are
Do not look to God to find yourself. Thank the gods, they stand above this world so that they can come into us, animate us, save us, and help us,...
Imbolc, Publishing, and The Coming of Robins
One publisher responded, “This may be one of the finest written manuscripts we have yet received,” but then did not invite me to publish because I have a mere 1,500...
Shakespeare, Sonnets, and Stewardship
Life is the conjoining of the old and the new—new species, or maybe old species made new in its specific surfacing—but so also is art.
She Asks for Your Tears, Not Your Toiling.
Soil is the co-relationship of matter, form, and bounded purpose, or creation, that works in the local place, that is known in and only by the local place, and that...
Death or Life or Maybe We Missed It Entirely
Death is in a strange way with modern life and its literature and art. Life in the modern sense mirrors its own strange way and is incapable of living without...
The River’s Pall & Autumn’s gods
The river and her morning rise does not need a name in the same way that their mist does not need our work. Human production has nothing to do with...