Climate Change and Apocalypse in Mokoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You
Mokoto Shinkai is not an anthropologist of human sacrifice. He is a storyteller and an artist. But storytellers and artists who are faithful to their mission of…
A Prayer to Saint Anthony
I dreamed, and in the dream of which I now relate, I saw St. Anthony summoned to St. Peter’s golden gate. “Dear patron saint of finding things…
The Hundred Sounds of the Wood
I would sleep better knowing I was near to The hundred sounds of wood Wood carved, cut, sawed, splintered Soft wood snapped underfoot, Hard wood cracked by…
The Last Passenger
In the cave, the grave you lie, acquainting yourself with linen, with cold stone, with cobwebs with dark, dusty silence, with grief the bedfellows of the dead…
Hupomeno: To Remain Under
We sat side by side, watching the sun recede Knowing, with a kind of resigned assurance, that we would never remember tomorrow what had happened…
The Monologue of Lazarus: A Poem
Do not wonder why I am pale and ashen Do ask me if I have seen a ghost. I do not want to tell you: I have…
In Isaiah’s Sandals: A Poem
Thus spake the herald: Look upon this holy hill; Where the sun spills over ever so brighter, Where waters leap over rock like flying buttresses Where the…
One Breath: A Poem
Somewhere in the antipodean blue The old salt sea rustles anonymously Darkened by nocturnal ink Busy and dark the currents, the old fingers Wedge themselves into sea…
David Foster Wallace and the Joy of Irony
"I want to convince you that irony, poker-faced silence, and fear of ridicule are distinctive of those features of contemporary U.S. culture (of which cutting-edge fiction is…
Irony and the Meaning of Human Existence: The Problems of Postmodernism
The Postmodern Irony of David Foster Wallace When you meet a new acquaintance at a social gathering, your first instinct is to seek common ground. The more…
Irony and the Meaning of Human Existence: The Wisdom of Classical Irony
“I have never done it before—stepping out of the life into the Alongside and looking at oneself living as if one were not alive. Do they all…
Fear, Dust, and Water: A Look Into T.S. Eliot’s Poetic Imagery
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us…
Postmodernism vs. Kierkegaardian Subjectivism: Imagination as Epistemology
In high-school, I had many of my science lab-reports returned to me with the comment “Re-write this in a more professional tone.” In an effort to render…