The Dead Sea Scrolls describes a humanity ravaged by time—a time either distant past or distant future. It may be fair to say past is future, because it’s a time when the laws of nature no longer apply. What’s inside is outside. What’s large is small. As in many religions there’s a promise of life after death, though there might not be much difference. Bynum’s work teems with visions, some soothing and others disturbing. It’s a prophetic outpouring of images. “Like universes coiling out of universes on a string.” As playful as it is dreadful.
Gerald Yelle, The Holyoke Diaries, and Evolution for the Hell of It.
What can be said about this poetry {The Dead Sea Scrolls} is that it is spiritually apocalyptic, an imagistic work of the imagination, an exegesis and ontological investigation, in which a revelation is made in the final verse: “the thread of being is a compass nettle in the soul”. From the Forward
Wally Swist, Catching Fish in Her Hands: Caring for Loved Ones with Dementia, and Candling the Eggs, and The Map of Eternity
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