Poems, readings, notebooks, meditations
This website is an ongoing archive of the different kinds of unscholarly writing I have pursued over the years. Retirement from academic life four years ago freed me to make a selection of private works publicly available. The links to these works are at the top and bottom of this homepage. (If you stumbled onto this site accidentally while looking for some of my scholarly writing, this page might help you.) Try the Search button at the top right to look for themes and ideas of particular interest to you. The works will be updated, refreshed and, in the case of the poems, changed periodically, so if you find something of interest, I hope you’ll come back in a while and look again. Thanks.
A life may be graceful
If it moves, as the dancer moves,
In two distinct rhythms,
Simultaneous in itself;
We are as the world makes us:
We are prior to the world;
We need accept nothing:
We accept much.
These are not for blending.
Desire is born free;
So is compulsion.
Grace is such tension
Beloved of the dancer,
Whose duty and whose need
Is to give the fixed form
Spontaneous generation.
"Aesthetic"
Eglise Saint-Enfant Jesus, Parc Lahaie
