Author Archives: LMJ
Getting inside
You fit over me
Like a lock to a key Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
Death in the time of cholera
This is no more a beginning than an end or a middle or an entirety. Its truth is based on a story. Continue reading
Filed under Fiction
Stippled ceilings and chessboard linoleum
Writing feels somewhat like milking a reluctant udder. There’s a brilliance in saying nothing, keeping corrugated iron over the mouth of your well so that no one can observe the depth of its shallowness. But then what do you do with a fistful of wishing pennies? Continue reading
Filed under Poetry
little gods
haikuis what i call “haiku”when i create it haiku is good (according to any given community)when everyone in that community who has experienced “haiku” & “good”thinks my haiku is “haiku” and “good” if there is disagreement in a communityabout what … Continue reading
The nth Commandment
The nth Commandment The artist notes: In the beginning I wasquite self-conscious as Idipped my fingerin my own blood This must be what itfeels like To write your dyingwordsAnd then I realisedNo Not at allThis is very wrong This is … Continue reading
Filed under Poetry
