dry ice

day grows sere 
eon grows serer still

dawn draws near
eschaton draws nearer still

The Man in the Moon

That silly silent moon slowly ascends, a buttery balloon 
Its bright mellow gleam splinters my watery eyes 
Its beam like a spider-spun silvery string 
Chaining my soul to its glimmering golden bowl.
The moon is mine 
mine alone, as long as I linger in its thrall 
it breathes its clay-cold life into me alone 
and all the wide world evaporates into blind oblivion.
I am knighted, crowned, exalted, sanctified
Purified in its frosty furnace-font.
Thus emblazoned I reign over a world of one
me and my benighted moon —
La luna sordomuda mia
— that pale-haloed harbinger of monotone doom.

Exile

Behold the willows watered by thy wandering soul —
Yes, the very willows whereupon I have hung my heavy heart.
Lo, how they weep!
Oh, how wondrously wise. 

This moment

This hour, we forgot all the world outside these walls
This minute, we lost all the layers of artifice and "civilization"
This moment, we rediscovered the primeval cosmic human deep within us
Ephemeral eternity
Infinite
Point
Of
Exclamation
Singularity
Space and time curving in upon itself
The confounding mysteries of creation
Made as plain as the pupils of your eyes

(Feb 27, 2016)

Untaethered

Layer upon mushy layer 
of sentiment, slowly accuming 
The cold dark depths of my
Subconchness
 Patrifying
My shells of fear, falsilized
There they lie
Until the end of the age.
Orieginally bored, accidentally ostralized.
Ghast to the fore, wends
a homeless roamadic
Untaethered to the maternial world
A shovel of this mote, recoil
I lose the slippery bounds of worth
My widening ire spun to the
Deep blue wonder

(Aug 27, 2015)

Comparison of "Soledad" with "la Historia de un Amor"

La Historia de un Amor (Carlos Eleta Almarán)

Soledad (Jah Wobble)

Ya no estás más a mi lado, corazón, en el alma sólo tengo soledad Y si ya no puedo verte porque Dios me hizo quererte para hacerme sufrir más. Siempre fuiste la razón de mi existir, adorarte para mí fue religión Y en tus besos yo encontraba el calor que me brindaba, el amor y la pasión. el amor que me brindaba, el calor de tu pasión. Es la historia de un amor como no hay/habrá otro igual, que me hizo comprender todo el bien, todo el mal. Que le dió luz a mi vida, apagándola después. ¡Ay, qué vida tan oscura! Sin tu amor no viviré. Ay, qué noche tan oscura, todo se me ha de volver.

Déjame Porque sólo tengo soledad Y los recuerdos tan perdido Un momento doloroso ¡Ay, qué vida tan oscura! Para que me sufro más Déjame Tus manos que tocan canciones Para mí fue religión Pero los recuerdos tan perdido Un momento doloroso Díme que me amarás ¡Ay, qué vida tan oscura! Sin tu amor no viviré Los recuerdos tan perdido Un momento doloroso

Epochs (origin points for counting years)

(Dates using the astronomical year numbering system or ISO 8601.)

+879	Nepal Sambat
+640	Islamic
+638	Burmese
+632	Zoroastrian 'Yazdegirdi' (mainstream)
+622	Islamic. Several calendar variants, but all use the same Epoch. e.g. the Jalali.
+592	Bengali
+284	Era of Martyrs, aka Diocletian Era
+78	Hindu: Shaka era; Indian national calendar
+8	Ethiopian; Coptic
0	Christian (mainstream) - Dionysius Exiguus
-57	Hindu/Nepali: Vikram Samvat
-248	Parthian
-312	Seleucid era
-390	Zoroastrian (birth of Zoroaster)
-544	Buddhist (Buddha attains parinirvana) +/- 1 year
-568	Zoroastrian (old)
-691	Buddhist: Anjana Sakaraj (not to be used past -544)
-753	Rome (AUC)
-776	Olympiad
-951	Berber
-1167	Discordian
-1200	Iron Age
-1710	beginning of Ovid's Golden Age, according to Jerome
-1737	Zarathustrian (Age of Aries)
-2050	Augustine's mythikon start
-2137	Varro's mythikon start
-2300	Akkad (ultra-low chronology)
-2333	Dangi (Korean)
-2376	Censorinus's mythikon start
-2200	China
-2500	Indus valley
-2600	Sumer- earliest "real" king. Earliest "coherent texts"
-2697	China: Accession of the Yellow Emperor
-2900	the actual flood, useful for dating
-3050	Menes
-3100	Egypt, unified - First Dynasty
-3102	Hindu - Kali Yuga (mainstream) - ostensibly, death of Krishna
-3113	Maya Long Count: current creation cycle, the creation of humans
-3300	Bronze Age in the Near East
-3400	Egypt (or 3000). Earliest writing systems
-3500	earliest chronologies (Sumer, Mesopotamia)
-3761	Hebrew (mainstream) - the Hillel World Era, Anno Mundi. (Maimonides; Seder Olam Rabbah)
-3952	Creation, according to Bede
-4000	Creation - Judeo-Christian - Masoretic. Many variations, from 3616 to 4192. Famous: 4004 (Ussher). Anno Lucis of the Masons.
-4339	Creation - Jewish (Seder Olam Zutta)
-4714	Julian Day Numbering. This is an Epoch commonly used in astronomy.
-4750	Assyrian
-4963	Benedictine
-5199	Creation, according to some Christian sources, particularly Jerome following Eusebius.
-5500	Creation - Judeo-Christian - Septuagint. Many variations, including the following:
-5493	Christian: Alexandrian Era
-5509	Christian: Byzantine Etos Kosmou - since Creation
-5529	Creation, according to Theophilus of Antioch
-6600	earliest writing of any kind
-6984	Creation, according to Afonso X of Castile
-8000	neolithic revolution
-8239	Maya Long Count: start of previous cycle (which was terminated early)
-9600	Creation, according to mainstream Zoroastrianism (approx)
-9700	Holocene geological epoch
-10000	Holocene Era, aka Human Era. Jericho. The most recent Heinrich Event, H0. End of the last glacial period.
-10200	The Neolithic revolution; ASPRO Period 2.
-12000	ASPRO Period 1.
-17680	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Syncellus)
-18000	Zarzian culture
-18000	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Diodorus Siculus) (approx)
-20000	Epipaleolithic
-28000	Creation, according to Sumerian King List, if we interpret years to be months
-28000	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Eusebius)
-30425	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Schwaller)
-39000	Creation, according to one Chinese source (Xu Zheng) (approx)
-39550	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Martianus Capella) (approx)
-39575	Creation, according to one Egyptian source
-39670	Creation, according to one Egyptian source
-49219	Creation, according to one Egyptian source (Laeretius)
-50000	Upper Paleolithic
-153000	Creation, according to Theophilus of Antioch (Apollonius) (approx)
-3891102	Hindu: Start of the current Yuga cycle