What is your earliest memory? This is mine.
This is my earliest memory – a memory of my father – together with a poem I’ve put it into. What is your earliest memory?
Poem
This sub-category of Articulations collects all my posts of poems.
In memorium Lou Reed
In memorium Lou Reed (1942-2013) – a pencil drawing of Lou Reed’s time ravaged face over Andy Warhole’s poster of him as a young man.
Atropos and Mnemosyne – a poem about memory loss
His same question, my same answer, again and again. Atropos and Mnemosyne, a poem.
Porphyrophobia – afraid of purple?
Porphyrophobia: a person with an irrational fear of the colour purple. Irrational fears of certain skin colours lie at the root of so much evil. But purple?
Surreptitiously – a seasonal Twitter haiku
“Surreptitiously” is a Twitter haiku about winter and spring, age and youth. The illustration is probably a bit of wish fulfillment.
Insouciance
Insouciance – a poem in which Narcissus prefers to descibe his manner as insouciance. The alternative seems somehow self-centred. Besides – daffodils!
Arcane Lore – a Prayer to Osiris
Arcane lore – the story of the God-King Osiris, son of the Earth and the Sky, brother of darkness and chaos, dismembered and restored, recounted in a poem
Falstaffian!
Falstaffian – a poem. Not ordinary, workaday, pedestrian, quotidian, But roaring, exceptional, gargantuan, Falstaffian!
Note to self
Note to self: If you want to stay up till 3am, go ahead, drink that double espresso …
Old Hob – how you know you’re getting old
Old Hob: You know you’re getting old (or have become a Hobbit) when it seems like time well spent, mornings, shaving your ears.