While the success of the internet as a global town square is dubious at best with its pervasive misinformation and polarization, one area in which it is unquestionably beneficial is […]
Essay
Towards Artificial Wisdom
What would Artificial Wisdom look like? We have myriad technologies which are grouped under the umbrella term Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Generative Computing, etc. — these are systems […]
Poetry
Nekrosestina
Leaves of gold and red make the announcement. We’ve been sleeping, trusting life’s green driver. Now we see: soil’s rich and grave appeal draws us down and grants eternal access […]
Journal - Meditation
A Meditation for Election Day
I visualize and affirm the triumph of Wisdom, of Love, of Democracy over lesser impulses and coarser currents in my country.
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Poetry Moves Season 14 (link)
The Artstra Poetry Moves website is currently showing my poem “A present from Apollo” along with the other selections from Season 14. These poems are also displayed on C-Tran buses […]
Journal
It’s editing season!
It’s editing season! When the words are threshed for their nutritious nuggets and the verbal husks are given back to the fields. My first full-length poetry collection is now in […]
Poetry
ROSES IN THE WINDOW (Translation)
ROSES IN THE WINDOW The purpose of our life is not depravity. There are infinitely lovelier things than this statuesque presence of the bygone epic. The purpose of our life […]
Athens - Poetry
Joyride mythos
You run the road, but do you sense the pressed ground underneath the road, the muscled hours that spread it out, the large machinery employed, the unions, contracts, regulations, the […]
Journal
Two sides of the void
I have always written in journals and notebooks, but since 2011 I have been keeping separate journals of spiritual practice. A single journal might span years (dependent on its heft), […]
Poetry
ZOETROPICS
Around the protective bubble of your comfort a wind is picking up hooved mythologies. The bee rides a plastic flag. On the way out we notice a quarter vending machine […]