Binary Stars and Life / After

(poetry)

Figure of the heavenly bodies by Bartolomeu Velho, 1568

To quote John Boyne, “The more you write, the more the ideas will appear. They’ll fall like confetti around your head and your only difficulty will be deciding which ones to catch and which to let fall to the floor.” That’s how art-poems are. I see them everywhere, these weird waymarkers, and my only difficulty is finding time to scribble them down and share them with you.

These two poems are about duality and division, the two sides of the coin.

Binary Stars takes a choose your own adventure approach, weaving together different strands to reveal two facets of the Divine:

Life / After looks at the river separating this life from the next:

May these poems point you toward paths not taken, which your soul has been itching to explore. Don’t resist it any longer.