Donald W Catchings Jr

Tag: death

  • Speak

    What does it mean to speak? Images forming images? Sounds forming sounds? Thoughts forming thoughts? The tick of the tongue Taps against the mouth. Curling and twisting Like worms on the ground. Through the nostrils, Oxygen’s inhaled. At the back of the mouth, Salivation builds. In the shoot of the throat,  Two cords vibrate, Up…

  • Theoden and the Wraith: Looking Along Death and Immortality

    Death and Immortality: two words that men contemplate, and shudder. Yet, these two words have occupied the imagination of men since, at least, the epoch of flickering fables orated around fires in Bedouin camps of contemporary man’s long dead ancestors. From The Epic of Gilgamesh and Moses’ Torah to the Bhagavad Gita, from Homer’s Iliad…