Publishing update: My new poem, ‘No Second Photius,’ was selected for the new (8 October) Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue 14. A total of 100 poems comprise the issue. The anthology is available here in paperback, hardcover, and also for free via Kindle Unlimited. Poets wishing to learn about Last Stanza, submissions and future themes, can see their website here.
Now on today’s aphorisms, a fun departure from the usual.
ONE.
All ekphrasis is diversionary;
It is not even literary;
You do not find it in philosophy.
TWO.
The quotidian life has retreated online;
Search out loud and fulfill it there.
THREE.
Never look back unless you are writing a book; for there there is nothing, again.
FOUR.
Emotion is a metaphysical object that manifest as a modality.
FIVE.
Philosophy is the ceaseless, improvisational rewriting of definitions.
SIX.
Negativity, as philosophically defined, is the archi of imagination;
it is the dark energy of the speculative universe, but only by metaphor;
ineluctably, language fhus imprisons all.
SEVEN.
For just as surely as a lack stirs a longing, a loss of cohesion is by the deluge precipitated.
EIGHT.
I do not care if I am not for this time;
I am for all time and no time at all.
NINE.
No matter how many times you turn a phrase, you cannot force it to tell the truth; much, less persuade it to dance.
TEN.
A modality is the fluid and transient manifestation of spirit in physical or psychical form.
ELEVEN.
We must try to love the world as it is, and as it will be, for we will never be able to understand it as it was.
I had to wrap my mind around these and bringing together #s four and ten hurt a little. But all are keepers. (And I am guilty of still trying despite this warning: "No matter how many times you turn a phrase, you cannot force it to tell the truth; much, less persuade it to dance.")
"I am for all time and no time at all."
I sense I will be reusing that at some point... many probably.