Balloon: Freedom and fate in the GDR

The following was taken from a letter to a fellow writer, with whom I spoke extensively about the research for my new book Alterity that will touch on events of WWII and the impact of the GDR system on the society of East Germany.

Success in the underworld

Are crimes perceived as more terrible when the victims are anonymous? Anonymous victims here refer to the shadow of our soul. Success in the underworld.

What it means to be a true muse

A true muse is entirely conscious of the veil between passions of the sensual and the creative, to permit the flow between both sides, still never isolated.

An undefined pursuit for bewildered integrity

There is a sweet, stabbing irony when one needs the suffocating embrace of a loved one most, those who sincerely feel let go to allow intrepid air to all parts of your emotional skin.You breathe through the pores in your …

Huginn and Muninn recovered

It’s the kind of sky that makes human’s bulimic – polemic, so the recommended spelling correction. This can’t detract from the wind nearer inland, or the sun by the coast. High on a pole, coming down to near shoulder height …

Slugs in Japan – or the needlessness of time

For some, this is sci-fi with the profound excitement of slime and sludge, for others it’s the nuisance of running late. And being late is a sincere sacrilege in some countries around the world. While a small village in the …

Willing one’s own will

Not quite getting enough of self-mastery – or mastering the self, willing one’s own will, for the lack of contrary argument. As it happens, a book crossed my path.Initially just digital, and with a new interest being bookbinding, this non-physical …

The Southern fringes of your temple wall

Diese Angst treibt sich umGreift umKaum noch mich atmen lassen Take care of thyself. Though art a poet! From flurry to field – home to a group of sheep unsuspected of any crimes as yet not committedat a time when …

At the end of the road, everything in him came to a halt, dissident to all, with the path inclined to spread into contrary directions; his daydreaming climaxed into mere contemptible interference ‘What if Freud was… , in a physical …