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In the Dark, Dreaming
By Richard Mather (Inspired, in part, by John Milton’s Paradise Lost , Book 5: 108-113) Tonight I am not in my right mind. It was the...
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Verses on John Milton’s Paradise Regained, Book IV (“Unobserved Home to His Mother’s House Private Returned”)
By Richard Mather “Stuck in this uneasy station, what else To do but to let these words I write (Knowing that you, Son of God, Will never...
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Above Heroic (Though in Secret Done)
By Richard Mather Exile, or ignominy, or bonds, or pain You must wait for courage or grace but fate Is stubborn. Waiting is very...
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Surfaces, Simulacra and Sight
By Richard Mather Simulacra peel Continually from the body’s Surface, each image Bearing the appearance of the Part it belongs to. A...
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Made of Light
By Richard Mather Everything is made of light. Everything is light, of differing gradations and qualities, from the big bang to the...
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Portrait, Or: Idea of a Body without Organs: 'Face Value'
Without division or interval,
the body appears as pure form
over content, surface without depth.
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Adam the Devil Becomes
Expecting nothing but laughter and applause,
Adam hears on all sides sounds of derision,
Harshly sibilant.
All were transformed to serpents
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These Words Are Not My Words
Words like mosquitoes swarming / Around me, pestering
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Language Speaks for Itself
What is language? Where does it come from and what does it want (from us)?
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Money Is Everything
By Richard Mather No, I don’t wish to talk about money. In no way does it interest me. I seek an infinite leap beyond money. Even with my...
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The Darkness of This House
By Richard Mather Making his advances in tall steps, Davie marks Suzie standing small at the kitchen sink. She drops something, holds...
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Under a Spinozan Lens: Israel, Zionism and Bob Dylan’s ‘Neighborhood Bully’
By Richard Mather [Article originally published on academia.edu for Holocaust Memorial Day / Yom HaShoah on 27th January 2024. Image:...
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Schopenhauer's Flowers
Not the growing stem or the leaf blowing in the wind; not the opening bud or the emerging radicle; not the fourfold root yearning for water.
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Presentation of Self
By Richard Mather I am only fully actual when determined in all of my parts, when I am the sum of all predicates that can be attributed...
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Pond Life
By Richard Mather If water is the primal origin of all things (as the ancient Greek sage Thales of Miletus supposed), then considering...
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Infinite Understanding
What fact makes a principle true? Quid Facti. That is the question.
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The Quality of a Quantum
By Richard Mather I am nothing and you are nothing. but the relation between us isn’t nothing. Infinitesimally small differences...
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The Holy Instant (Inspired by ACIM - A Course In Miracles)
By Richard Mather The beginning is at nought: an arid place of aerated concrete. A tower goes to ruin, down, falling down, it falls, it...
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The Fact of Being Is Always True
By Richard Mather Said the professor — I am in a vortex, a maelstrom, below the eye’s surface, standing on the abyssal plain, the...
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In the Beginning Was
By Richard Mather Strange to think I am the universe and everything in it too. I call out. No voice returns other than my echo. So...
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