Sponges, metamorphoses and psyche
After a morning during which I searched my ravaged memory for the concealed door to my…
Strange salt
All I’ve suffered, and all the suffering I’ve caused, might have arisen from the lack of…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat VIII: involved in what I know
VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird…
13 Ways of looking at a bureaucrat VI: through barbaric glass darkly
VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it,…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
“Psychoanalysts don’t usually write essays; they tend to write lectures or papers or chapters, or what…
Life expectancy
Here is a poem I wrote, prompted by estimates of rising life expectancy across most of…
Lament
Here is a poem I wrote a couple of months ago amidst the endless stream of…
Poem: No Markers
Here is another poem, belonging in my Dr Cogito series, if without any direct naming of…
Dr Cogito’s Fall
Here is another in the series of poems featuring Dr Cogito that I have been writing….
Inspirations on being
Yesterday I listened to the On Being podcast, which is surely one of the jewels of…