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A Form of Life
By Richard Mather The mind forges the world as a reflection of itself, numerates reality according to its categories.* And the world as...
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A Controversy
By Richard Mather In the day before God brought this world into being the heavenly hosts were reclining in the tent of the sun. “It is...
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A Beginning
By Richard Mather I will proclaim the name of Elah Yisrael: It is Yahuweh Tzavaot the impassioned one who speaks the yod & the heh, who...
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Ex Nihilo
By Richard Mather Men emerged from the sea, Fish from the buxom earth, Birds from the volcano's mouth, The herds from the sky. Flames...
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The Soul is a Circle
By Richard Mather My external sensations are no less private to myself Than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case My experience...
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Temptation
By Richard Mather A deceitful simulacrum Or a faithful copy of the transcendent world. The first temptation is exile from the...
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Being
By Richard Mather Not up but down those low places loathed by men. Letting be the easy way, lying flat where I can. Passing through is to...
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A Beginning
By Richard Mather I will proclaim the name of Elah Yisrael: It is Yehowah Tzavaot the impassioned one who speaks the yod & the heh, who...
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2-Theory
By Richard Mather 1 Apeiron beginning; ur-reality: eternal, infinite, boundless, indefinite; yielding every thing through the actions of...
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The Scent of a Foreign Newspaper in the Morning
By Richard Mather The scent of a foreign newspaper in the morning: New ink on old investments and trades. While down in Berlin, the...
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Little Owl
By Richard Mather A minute before midnight, the owl of Minerva watches today grow fat behind time’s horizon. At twelve he blinks. One eye...
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Kneading Substance (new version)
By Richard Mather ebrah k’dabri - “I will create as I speak” I am kneading this substance into shape, and with a name I firm it up....
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When He Planted in the Earth
By Richard Mather When He planted in the earth a tree of life, a tree of death (the latter with a curse of woe) did God say that this was...
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Earth Tilts and Substance Crumbles
By Richard Mather Earth tilts and substance crumbles. Objects strain at the seams, crack, come off hinges, decohere, liquefy, dissolve...
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Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum
By Richard Mather Quid si nunc cœlum ruat? Welcome to the miraculous swaying statue of Our Lady of Tomorrow. Her eyes bleed the sacred...
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God's Ecophagy
By Richard Mather God was striding the heavens when Snake emerged from a bone black gap between the wet green grasses. Six days passed...
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Kneading Substance
By Richard Mather I am kneading this substance into shape And with a name I firm it up. What’s the matter? Matter is pliable. Fixed to...
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Light Comes up behind Light
By Richard Mather Time pursues time and light comes up behind light. One sun follows another – each circle of bright ringed by a dark...
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Wyrd
By Richard Mather In the beginning was the Wyrd. A story of weirding words and the poet fluttered his pen over the ink. What comes to...
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Blackcrook’d
By Richard Mather When God's thick cloud closed over the world, a state of dark dissolution shrouded the oasis of Junaynah. And the...
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