Writing
I write essays, sometimes measured, sometimes unruly, about the things I’ve spent my life mastering. My thoughts can be divisive, but I'm just trying to get closer to truth.
And the truth I’ve discovered is that I know nothing — and so poetry becomes a tool to reach beyond, to strike at something transcendent. I often write it in prose, sometimes as philosophy, sometimes simply painting with words.
I regularly write creative fiction, recently focusing on my Kingdom of Flowers project: a fantasy anthology of short works written for adaptation, from which I publish ongoing excerpts and studies.
On Inertia
- Most of what we call knowledge is a result of social inertia, not a pursuit of reality.
- All assumptions can and should be questioned. Even humanity’s most cherished truths are covered in cracks.
- The singular correct assumption is that everything we know is wrong — or, at best, a fragmented and distant allegory of something deeper.
- Those wrong via thought are wiser than those right via habit.
Recursions II
- April 6, 2024
- poetry
A prose poem asking if success is failure.