Perhaps totality is over-rated; the completeness of you-ness and me-ness. Souls may touch, but they can never merge. But if they did, there would be no you-ness or me-ness. And then what would we have to love?
Category: Prose & Poetry
black seed
This piece was originally written for a Creative Writing class at NYU. you take refuge in my abundance let me mark you with my blood douse you and make you my own together we are in the terror of beauty our oneness incomplete with yearning once twice three times we rock softness pierced with pain with soft growling against the drum of my ear i wonder… Continue reading black seed
Susana di Palermo
This piece was originally written for a Creative Writing class at NYU Paris taught by Eugene Ostashevsky. Habibi, … Continue reading Susana di Palermo
Comprehensible Good, Incomprehensible Evil: The Life and Works of Primo Levi
This piece was originally published by La Pietra Dialogues on March 28, 2017. Find the original article here: http://www.lapietradialogues.org/blog/?p=7339 The Jewish-Italian writer, poet, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi was born in Turin on July 31, 1919. His birth, life, and death would all take place in the same fourth-floor apartment, other than a brief stint… Continue reading Comprehensible Good, Incomprehensible Evil: The Life and Works of Primo Levi