top of page
Search
![Academia.edu: Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life [complete]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318f3a_382f71cf705a45e0845a270995aa8d7b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/318f3a_382f71cf705a45e0845a270995aa8d7b~mv2.webp)
![Academia.edu: Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life [complete]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318f3a_382f71cf705a45e0845a270995aa8d7b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/318f3a_382f71cf705a45e0845a270995aa8d7b~mv2.webp)
Academia.edu: Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life [complete]
Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life [complete] New on Academia.edu (DOC) Wittgenstein's Willing Subject: How the Happy Life Is the Only Right Life [complete]

Richard Mather


All the World Was Broken: An Ecopoem
All the World Was Broken: An Ecopoem On weightless air, the cocksure ravens flew. Wild sheep chewed grass; deer And bison chewed too. On a slanted hillside white mountain goats Enjoyed a lofty view. In forests, eucalypti, fresh-minted, grew. And fire-green firs with purple cones, Did too. For the silver-studded starfish there were oceans Wet with green and blue – And oceans for the whale and dolphin too. On blackest soil, the man called Adam grew H

Richard Mather


Samson
The Blinded Samson (1912) by Lovis Corinth 1 The LORD is a living dread whose absence in Shiloh is more potent than his presence....

Richard Mather


Seven Worlds
God turns -- and the fishes dance blue gold silver beneath a yellow sky. Another turn, the boughs of thick trees become as air: invisibly...

Richard Mather


By the Sound of a Voice
By the Sound of a Voice After a long silence that seemed An eternity, There came a turbulent noise, A spirited noise. No, it was a...

Richard Mather


God, DNA, Bone
God, DNA, Bone Our DNA a polymer implant from our worldly creator, Backbone sidechain nitrogen phosphate And an oesophagus for...

Richard Mather


Father O'Sinner
Father O'Sinner Father O’Sinner is not his name (not quite), Though it should be and not O’Connor, Which was the name bestowed...

Richard Mather


Exodus 20:21
‘Moses approached the thick darkness where God was’ — (Exodus 20:21) God is a chasm deep & wide at the Heart of light, thick cloud ...

Richard Mather


A Dark Thought in a Green Shade
A Dark Thought in a Green Shade Somewhere in the newly planted earth, a god sits at his bench, creating and curating each little...

Richard Mather


Melville and the White Whale
Shut up Here in This Caved Trunk of a Room, On the Massachusetts Side of a Loose-Fish Land We Call America — and Feeling All at Sea In a World That Is Mad and Wet All Over I Write down This, My Heathen Language. Making waves. Much INK OIL WAX SPERM BLOOD Spilled to find the White Whale — Whose mighty tail-flukes billow the sea’s shroud; whose peck-slaps flap and flood six hundred pages of Great American Prosody; whose massive genitalia remind us of Fallen Nature; who

Richard Mather


Made of Light
Everything is made of light. Everything is light, of differing gradations and qualities, from the big bang to the atom. Earth and sky...

Richard Mather


The Quality of a Quantum
I am nothing and you are nothing. but the relation between us isn’t nothing. Infinitesimally small differences establish the continuity...

Richard Mather


In the Beginning Was
In the Beginning Was Strange to think I am the universe and everything in it too. I call out. No voice returns other than my echo. So...

Richard Mather


Temple Curtain
"The temple curtain made of some heavy purple fabric, with its curious pleats ..."

Richard Mather


A Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice
And so the gods of lead and brass, The idols and their thrones, The teraphim made of fibreglass The mummified skulls and bones, Are...

Richard Mather


Ecophagy
God was striding the heavens when a snake emerged from a bone black gap between the wet green grasses. Six days passed and earth was in...

Richard Mather


A Beginning
A Beginning I will proclaim the name of Elah Yisrael: It is Yahuweh Tzavaot the impassioned one who speaks the yod & the heh, who brings...

Richard Mather


When He Planted in the Earth
When He planted in the earth a tree of life, a tree of death (the latter with a curse of woe) did God say that this was good? And when He...

Richard Mather


Yehudah, I Make You Mine
Yehudah, I Make You Mine From out of the banks of the muddy Jordan River, I make you Mine. Into shape I press the grit, into shape I...

Richard Mather


God’s Entropy (short version)
God's Entropy (short version)

Richard Mather
bottom of page