Brian Trehearne: A Continuing Archive
Poems, readings, notebooks, meditations
Welcome.
This website showcases some of the different kinds of unscholarly writing I’ve pursued over the years. Above all it’s a home for my poetry, which I’ve been writing since my teens. Interested visitors will also find a meditation journal I kept from 2022 to 2025, some prose entries from my poetry notebooks, and a few of my recordings of the poems that have been important to me. The links to these works are at the top and bottom of this homepage, and at the top right of every page (click on the three stacked bars).
If you stumbled onto this site accidentally while looking for some of my scholarly writing, this page might help you.)
My first book of poetry, Paper Black Leaf, has just been released. On the Poems page you’ll find a small selection of poems from that book. These will rotate often, so do come back in a while and look again. Whatever the time you spend here, thanks for looking in.
A life may be graceful
If it moves, as the dancer moves,
In two distinct rhythms,
Simultaneous with 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”
