the calico caliphate

Scriptworlds.

    "The Autumn Name of God

Color, said the nun, is the autumn
name of God
and his winter name is Silence.

and here is how it is for us:

we have only color and silence left
the leaves burn beautifully in their slow dying
the wind through the branches
makes a music like a lullaby
it carries back the names of other seasons

autumn is the last color of the house

framed there at the end of the path
amidst brilliant oaks and maples
we don't see its peeling paint,
the way the shutter hangs by a hinge

reds and yellows blow across the path,
pile up against the wall

soon, bare branches and snow

the coming of silence
God's final name"

--Janet McCann, The Crone at the Casino (2013)

"... interstellar travel plays the same role in the secular religion of progress—the established faith of our age—that the Second Coming of Christ plays in Christian theology."

"And yet, from its place of banishment, the abject does not cease challenging its master." --Kristeva