Spirituality

Jesus sits beside me at the bar. It’s not really a bar, it’s a “social club,” so smoking rules don’t apply. I pop a Newport between my lips, and look…

The man of war was felled where he lay,
between a woman’s triumphant legs.

Four Dada Women About two years ago I taught a class on Dada for some kids at a summer camp. I usually teach hands-on art techniques so I was a…

I Stone saints, seated in symmetric seriesalong the pointed vault, graven angelsof the transept, and the sonorous golden soulof the bells imprisoned in the tall slender cageof the belfry tower—all…

Translator’s note. The Japanese title of this chapter is Uji. 有 u means “to have” or “there is” — thusit is often understood as Being. 時 ji means a moment…

Three chapters from Th. Metzger’s new book DOWN IN THE FLOOD We sing for the dead and we sing with the dead. Untrained, unamplified, unrestrained, our voices are raucous and…

DEATH Jerusalem dances on living bodies,on dead bodies, on flesh, on stone—she doesn’t notice, she is not looking down.“You love death more than me,” God accuses her,“but I own death,do…

On the sixth glad day they longed for the beggar who had no hands. No sooner had they expressed their wish than he appeared, saying “Here I am!” just as…

The four men have come to a decision. This over beers while sitting on lawn chairs in the Electrician’s garage. The Electrician leans against a workbench wiping his hands on…

the fifth and penultimate chapter of Nachman of Breslov’s “Tale of the Seven Beggars” On the fifth day of the wedding, in the midst of all that happiness, they remembered…