Said the professor — I am in a vortex, a maelstrom, below the eye’s surface, standing on the abyssal plain, the fundament of all that is....

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...

Original Sin: Our DNA a polymer implant from our worldly creator, Blake’s Urizen. Backbone sidechain nitrogen phosphate And a plastic...

By Richard Mather Potato eaters – five peasant women, clothed in rags, seated round a square table in a brown room. The scene is set....

Selected Fragments Tool-use If the hammer is a symbol Of the power of the hand, The hand is the product Of the need for a hammer. Horizon...

Lord Ardenforde opens a jewellery box to reveal a platinum brooch, rhodium watch, immortal diamond choker; and on the quiltwork, a...

We see the visible world as somehow inevitable, with all its ratios of movement & rest, its manifold shapes & ecstatic forms, not...

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

What is amazing is not that my corpse was contracted and compressed into the earth’s dark matter (while my grave went unmarked and...

It was at this point I stopped dreaming and looked at the sky and saw what seemed to me a mirage reflecting upon itself what it mirrored...

By Richard Mather It is hard to get traction on a world that is constantly becoming something other than itself: not merely the loss and...

By Richard Mather When we were there in the crooked hell of that scarlet and black room, the world was a useless idol broken and beyond...

By Richard Mather Putting aside the extensive facthood of properties and things distributed in space, one has to wonder whether...

By Richard Mather “Our holiday has been turned into a day of mourning” -- Chaim A. Kaplan By lamp and by oil, we hunger the hours as the...

By Richard Mather Maya clouds -- sattva, rajas and tamas -- Encircle the throne of Krishna, the bright Abode of the ten thousand faces....

By Richard Mather Embosomed in stillful bliss no longer, My soul moves, and by degrees makes finite The substances of creation That...

The world is folded in to every object And each thing or idea is the folding And unfolding of space, time and history. And the atom is...

By Richard Mather If the hammer is a symbol of the power of the hand, the hand is the product of the need for a hammer.

By Richard Mather In the beginning was the Act: an act of will: the death of God… Horrified at his own existence, God craved non-being....

By Richard Mather Adam is a dry rib but sinews are stretched, tissue and flesh fashioned. Man of Spirit, embodied. Descending the...