#patrick hurley

the powers that sustain are the powers that destroy…

the powers that sustain are the powers that destroy for the moment i hold them in perfect equipoise Patrick Hurley taught writing and literature at various colleges for many years until he discovered bartenders make more than adjunct faculty and don’t have to grade papers. Now he makes poems. He is obsessed with a long project called walking.

the beggars from porlock will try to derail your thoughts…

the beggars from porlock will try to derail your thoughts ‘excuse me!’ they’ll shout over and over again just when you thought you might be on to something they’re looking for metaphysical spare change don’t try to get back on track that train has gone ferrying the dead-eyed hordes across acheron cocytus lethe phlegethon styx back to their suburbs Patrick Hurley taught writing and literature at…

nature’s not a uniform green and old walt…

nature’s not a uniform green and old walt never measured the handkerchief of the lord abide with me in contradiction i’ll grow so vast all opposites will be contained within me nations and churches will cease to exist everything decays in time what rich black compost it all makes Patrick Hurley taught writing and literature at various colleges for many years until he discovered bartenders make…

the gates seem forbidding but stout souls will enter…

the gates seem forbidding but stout souls will enter at first the music from within will sound dark if not discordant change your ears simplicity contains within it the root of all complexity abandon serial fantasies repetition doesn’t exist there is a sound imperceptible to dull ears the crowds will laugh and jeer when you start to dance pity those who will never hear the music Patrick Hurley…

escape as a concept is pure distraction…

escape as a concept is pure distraction effective movement towards any cardinal point must be predicated upon some subtle interior transformation even from the standpoint of a supposed objective observer situated let’s say in such a way as to observe without influencing the observation even such an observer could track no movement that wasn’t insincere the language of exteriority and…

memory is fragmentary and there is nothing…

memory is fragmentary and there is nothing to be assembled or reassembled beware the cyclical fallacy as well as totality’s siren song can a solitary particle admit of possession even while aggregates shift and morph relentlessly into brightly colored patterns? seductive…but in the end—if there is such a thing—merely hypnotic or narcotic perhaps even arteriosclerotic Patrick Hurley taught writing…

there is no passage not of time nor through space…

there is no passage not of time nor through space we cover what should be uncovered and unearth what belongs beneath the surface dubious structures are erected at night neither scale them nor work your way painstakingly around them pass through them as if they are not there they are not Patrick Hurley taught writing and literature at various colleges for many years until he discovered bartenders…