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Bulletins from the Hermitage

Writing


The Insouciance of Dreams
Now: I finally found you after the building of massive monuments brick and mortar endless pilgrimage bloody feet walking snowdeep wild...
Feb 24


Going Away: The Glories of Self-Emolation
Preparation "What would it take to set yourself on fire? How long before the act do you plan? Is it necessary to be in some altered state...
Jan 20


dis ease (Winter Solstice)
HAIL ALL YE, from inside the lions den. All the jokers fakers ogres and fools, my people, you are welcome here, at the end of time. The...
Dec 23, 2024


Says Old Jim
Where my tepee is attached to the world there are many lashings. My mother lashed me to her back as a baby and there I faced the future....
Nov 3, 2024


The Gathering Children
I am afraid I have, in the past, described an ideal life at the Hermitage, but environmentally destructive land use norms have been...
Aug 25, 2024

Phonetics Part II: Fricatives
Thus a baby was born into a family unable to breathe freely, a self-conscious bunch that drew their bloodyline through generations and...
Jul 27, 2024


Phonetics Part I: Plosives
Stop Yesterday here at the Hermitage, all and at once the birds stood still. Little silhouettes on tree branches posed midalight and...
May 11, 2024


Melancholy County
Have you seen my father? I know he is living on the earth somewhere, but I have not been in his presence for hundreds of years. I was...
Mar 24, 2024


Blood
i cut my finger this morning red blood born into the world a storm of birds crooked their necks toward the sound of the spaces in between...
Mar 14, 2024


Sightings
I. Walking down the sloping paved entry into the trailer park on the outskirts of my hometown, I scanned the rugged terrain to my right....
Mar 8, 2024


Movie Montage Series: Love Comes at Night
All through the night the storm raged and your eyes looked blankly through the window at me I let you in "Where are the others, the...
Feb 22, 2024

He Who Wears Fingers as a Necklace
Following Starlet's foray into the Realm of Love, she at once became a disciple of Gautama Buddha, and was said to have become an...
Feb 13, 2024


You Are What You Eat
Starlet was born in the woods. This is her subterranean memory, of deep inhalations of rich black dirt, delightful decay, the reachings...
Feb 8, 2024

The Hermitage: Drain Ditch 789
Here at the Hermitage we live just up a small slope from Drain Ditch 789, which once was more enchantingly named the Little Maple River...
Feb 3, 2024


Treat Everyone as an Old Friend
Raccoon. Why do you come here in the night wreaking havok on the bird feeder? Where do you come from, wily raccoon who runs quickly to...
Jan 30, 2024

The Ego is Legion
The Beginning: The Shape Shifting of Ancestry To arrive here, on this late date, seems ludicrous, and yet, strangely, as it should be. I...
Jan 27, 2024


Dialect of the Borning
A fairy in the woodland bit my mother one day and simultaneously the trees began to respirate loudly, releasing me with hissing,...
Jan 19, 2024
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