Tag Archives: perspective

Time is on my Side

Posted on April 3, 2018 by jejunejesuit

Time is on my side. The buds of spring appear before my very eyes; the leaves spread open in the sun for me to watch. They say the moment rests upon a razor’s edge, the past behind, the future gone— … Continue reading →

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Top-Down Perspective

Posted on October 31, 2016 by jejunejesuit

It’s helpful to keep a bird’s eye view on things. When I flew into Europe for the first time, after an entire year of fantasy and anticipation, I was amazed at how familiar it looked. “Temperate” was the word that … Continue reading →

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Doubt and the Butcher

Posted on May 6, 2016 by jejunejesuit

Lay me to the bone, oh Lord, and vivisect me whole, should you exist. Cut through these layers of monotony, this sense of ought and should and duty, and let me know there lies, beneath the flesh, some metaphysics I … Continue reading →

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Cross-eyed

Posted on September 26, 2012 by jejunejesuit

My favorite point of the view is the too-close, the cross-eyed, where the frame of your own body alters the thing you’re looking at; the uncommon times when you can see yourself in relation to something else. Under the covers, … Continue reading →

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