Made of Stars

Quantum Entangled

Diamonds, quantum entangled by some curious science, my dreams find a thousand voices chanting in a void. Chevalier, that spirit I found in the dark-- and came away with a another mysterious spirit, let loose by that encounter into what world I don't know.

To Love

Tomorrow: The End of the World as we Know it

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Excerpted from "The Hollow Men," by T.S. Eliot

Midwinter

A blue light

radiates from my clothing.

Midwinter.

Clattering tambourines of ice.

I close my eyes.

There is a silent world

there is a crack

where the dead

are smuggled across the border.

Tomas Transtromer