The Geecologist

Landmarks

Landmarks

Aug 29, 2020 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

I am wary of the dangers of fetishizing dialect and archaism – all that mollocking and sukebinding Stella Gibbons spoofed so brilliantly in Cold Comfort Farm (1932). Wary, too, of being seen to advocate a tyranny of the nominal – a taxonomic need to point and name,...
The Golden Eternity

The Golden Eternity

Jul 27, 2019 | Letters, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

I have lots of things to share now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is...
Lullaby

Lullaby

Feb 17, 2017 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.