#a practice

A Practice - Center of advanced technologies, Morlanwelz 2011. Photos © Maxime Delvaux.

I feel too creative for a 9-5 right now. *8-4.

I have Ideas.

I have Desires.

I want to see the psychic and ask her if I’m still the same color. Ask if I still have ribs in my garden or if I’ve re-earthed&re-birthed my foresides until they took wind; afflux ferrite mites affix to my lashes. Mr. Sandman is bringing me more than just his dream. Promising for you this part of me. Grey matter pillow talking to rose petal pink. Ask her if she ever read Gathering Blue. Ask her why she suggested of all things I pursue reiki. Healing is something I do unwillingly. Nobody said singeing in the scar was plush, pleasing, pretty.

Burns don’t bleed.

All the best fires are blue. Top dog in the temperature hierarchy. It means combustion is occurring in balance, in harmony. Blessed are those burn borning. That’s what my god sings.

CAIRO — Nationally-acclaimed bodybuilder Ali el-Sharkawy works out in the evenings, but only after the 29-year-old has spent the morning picking up trash to sustain himself through his athletic career. Although he has won accolades such as two bronze medals at national championships, like many other Egyptian athletes who compete in individual sports, he has not been able to secure any funding or…