“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
All of these are true, even when they knock against each other: I write because I must. This is not obsessive. It is not compulsive. It is necessary. I write because I must keep moving. I write because I am trying to see. I write because it helps me explain things to myself. If I do not write, I cannot discover what I think. Without writing, the days pass in […]
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For me, Mark is the Gospel where Christ is most a man, and therefore most real. He both sees our suffering and shares in it. I am a skeptic of all dogma. Twelve years of Catholic education left an indelible imprint on my ways of seeing and thinking. Both of those sentences are true. Re-reading Mark now, and responding to it in these poems, is another attempt to find out […]
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