The world is never ready



for the birth of a child.





Our ships are not yet back from Winnland.



We still have to get over the S. Gothard pass.



We've got to outwit the watchmen on the desert of Thor,



fight our way through the sewers to Warsaw's center,



gain access to King Harald the Butterpat,



and wait until the downfall of Minister Fouche.



Only in Acapulco



can we begin… Continue

"Astonishing" is an epithet concealing a logical trap. We're astonished, after all, by things that deviate from some well-known and universally acknowledged norm, from an obviousness we've grown accustomed to. Granted, in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like "the ordinary world," "ordinary life," "the ordinary course of events." ... But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a… Continue