Author Archives: subincontinentia

Today I took off my shame I didn’t hurl it at the ground I just noticed I was small enough to slip through it Unmolested. Bodiless, it fell like a pile of empty armour On a silent battlefield. Every strap … Continue reading →

The next time someone asks me to describe depression, I think that I will simply send them the following lines from this song. Let me, let me, Let me freeze again Let me, let me Freeze again to death Let … Continue reading →

This hole is perfect because you are in It Don’t even try to get out This is the perfect shape of you Crushed to atomic Compounded to compost To a mad misshapen thing Beyond redemption or repair. The seed song … Continue reading →

We met only in the desert My impossible love and I A holy cup of mutual thirst where darkness lights the sky.                                      … Continue reading →

Sometimes when we see things from a distance, we see things more clearly. Like the view of a mountain from another mountain across a whole valley between. But sometimes, when we view things from afar, we miss something vital. Sometimes … Continue reading →

“Pijaude” they call it in the French Gâtine, the stretch of gentle hill and forest undercoated with granite so hard that the region has remained, even today, resistant to cultivation or change. The word refers to the effect of sunlight … Continue reading →

I spent a bit of time reading about this phenomenon – it is called the illusion of asymmetric insight – google it if you are interested. I wrote a poem about it. Maybe you will do something with it too, … Continue reading →

If you want a thing Move softly in the direction of that which reflects it. The thing itself might find your presence too much to bear And you will find it there, also. And less easily startled.   Si tu … Continue reading →