Poetry - Poiesis Means A Thing Made.

As Sokrates Tells It, Your Story Begins The Moment Eros Enters You. That Incursion Is The Biggest Risk Of Your Life. How You Handle It Is An Index Of The Quality, Wisdom, And Decorum Of The Things Inside You. As You Handle It You Come Into Contact With What Is Inside You, In A Sudden And Startling Way. You Perceive What You Are, What You Lack, What You Could Be.

Maybe I Could Have Been Good As A Drawer If I Had Done It As Much As I Did Writing, But It's More Scary To Draw. It's More Revealing. You Can't Disguise Yourself In Drawing.

The Beloved's Innocence Brutalizes The Lover. As The Singing Of A Mad Person Behind You On The Train Enrages You, Its Beautiful Animal-like Teeth Shining Amid Black Planes Of Paint. As Helen Enrages History. Senza Uscita.

The Self Forms At The Edge Of Desire, And A Science Of Self Arises In The Effort To Leave That Self Behind.

I Emphasize The Distinction Between Brackets And No Brackets Because It Will Affect Your Reading Experience, If You Will Allow It. Brackets Are Exciting. Even Though You Are Approaching Sappho In Translation, That Is No Reason You Should Miss The Drama Of Trying To Read A Papyrus Torn In Half Or Riddled With Holes Or Smaller Than A Postage Stamp--brackets Imply A Free Space Of Imaginal Adventure.