as heat, trembling with the fever of their uncertainty. Each letter is a mirage that flickers on the horizon of your attention, and every sentence is a shimmer that promises, then withholds, consolation. You have always suspected that language is less a bridge than a hallucination, and as you read, you watch the letters pulse…
The hardest sentence I ever wrote was the one I wrote before I knew I was writing. The coffee cooling on the desk, the cursor blinking at the margin, the irritable shuffle of pages that refuse to hold a line. You sense the outline of something, and in every gesture you make, every tap of…
Before it had a name, before it had a story, before gravity made up its mind, there was only waiting, and then, without ceremony or permission, a single drop let go. Beginning: You know those strange moments when you’re caught between what’s already happened and what might come? I am sitting by the window, watching…
The sentence exists before it is written, somewhere, pressing toward form… The world forgets what it finds inconvenient. This has been observed. A thing is present, then it is absent, and the space it occupied closes over without a mark. The knowledge of this does not make the writing easier or harder. Eventually, it sits…
after years of sharing my observations and notes on life, I have sat down and compiled a novella: Whispers of the Witness This isn’t prose; it’s void song. It doesn’t tell a story; it unravels the illusion that you are separate from it. It’s the sacred hum before the first word was ever spoken, this…
“Before I wrote the first word, words had already written me.” A new e-book appeared on the web; I write because I am, but see that“ I“ is an illusion. Before language, before the first thought thought itself, here, something is already present; the book, the writer, and the reader are all later inventions… Currently…
not because anyone asked for it, not because the world hinges on its completion, but because it is the silent kernel at the heart of my being. It is a slow, anxious sedimentation of a need. It is my work, these are my children. I raise these unfinished things, with a sort of contradictory devotion;…
to give form to the silent urgings that would otherwise dissipate, unsaid, into the hush around me. Each day is a negotiation between the unseen world within and the resistant world without; i translate myself into words and know that even if no one comes to witness these artefacts, the work is not for nothing.…