Words like mosquitoes swarming / Around me, pestering

What is language? Where does it come from and what does it want (from us)?

By Richard Mather Kneading Substance [2706__0024] ebrah k’dabri - “I will create as I speak” I am kneading this substance into shape,...

A tool for imitating movement, For the small things that penetrate, For the breath's expulsion ...

Cryptic By Richard Mather The scent of a foreign newspaper in the morning: New ink on old investments and trades. While down in Berlin,...

By Richard Mather Having material weight, a poem can be shaped, sculptured and refined; erected as units, structures, factories,...

By Richard Mather Like a sacred text folded in on itself, a page half torn away, stains in the margins, a footnote wrongly numbered, the...

Discourse in the Garden An olive grove. Night. The sound of approaching footsteps. SOCRATES: ‘Swounds! A dark day for strong flowers and...

By Richard Mather French horns, the length of METAPHORS, playing in the dark And I am still thinking We ask her what she thinks as she...

Environed by varying degrees of space,   (depending on where you draw the line),   a poem is a picture of the artist's mind on a...

What are these things before me That come into shape? Do not ask And I will not have to answer. Weird creatures that run amok Inside...

Languages are outposts on the outskirts of being. By voice and by text we perform raids on being, but we find it impossible ...

By Richard Mather Flat poetics is derived from a recent development in metaphysical philosophy called object-oriented philosophy, also...