The Geecologist

Night Boat To Tangier

Night Boat To Tangier

Jan 6, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

You know what I get to wondering, Maurice? Tell me, Charlie. About death, Moss. Here we go. Is it as raw a deal as they make it out to be? Come again? Is it not in some way an ease when she comes calling? The Black Angel? . . . Hush now . . . Listen? . . . The gentle...
The Dialogue of Two Snails

The Dialogue of Two Snails

Oct 24, 2020 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

White Snail.- (Silence.) (A young lady with a lace parasol comes along counting her steps. Upon reaching a little brook, she hesitates. Then she jumps.) Black Snail.- (Silence.) (The rat has crossed the river. The bad rat. The rat that devours the tender rootlets.)...
Homegoing

Homegoing

Feb 2, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

The men continued sipping the wine in silence for a while. In the trees, the birds were calling each other to sleep. A spider crawled over James’s bare foot, and he thought of the Anansi stories his mother used to tell him, and still told his younger brothers and...
Silence

Silence

Nov 10, 2018 | Campaigns, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

IndeterminacyArtists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression “free as a bird,” Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, “You know? They’re not free:...
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Jul 7, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Silences After dinner, nobody went home right away. I think we’d enjoyed the meal so much we hoped Elaine would serve us the whole thing all over again. These were people we’ve gotten to know a little from Elaine’s volunteer work—nobody from my work, nobody from the...