oriana-poetry

poems by American and European poets; book reviews; poetry theory; personal reflections on poetry, the immigrant experience, psychology, religion, mythology, culture

Saturday, July 4, 2015

ALZHEIMER'S IS AUTOIMMUNE, FLUORIDATION HAS NO BENEFITS, MICHELANGELO'S REVENGE; INTROVERTS AND HIGHER AROUSAL

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LAST NIGHT OF THE LEONIDS No moon. The pines like black wind brushed the tips of stars. Horses stood in their corral, carved as if outside...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

THE SOUL WANTS A LOVE AFFAIR

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Su nset, Coronado Bridge, San Diego. Photo by Thad Roan The soul wants not an altar, but a love affair . ~ Lucrezia (a friend of mine in F...
Friday, June 12, 2015

BORGES: WE ARE BOTH MORTAL AND IMMORTAL, INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE

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Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything. ~ Saul Bellow ARS POETICA To gaze at a river made of time and wa...
Monday, May 25, 2015

DYING FOR NON-BELIEVERS

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When I am, death is not; when death is, I am not . ~ Epicurus Death is not an event in life; we do not live to experience death. If we t...
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