Rituals & Mythologies

Poetry and fiction from the liminal spaces.
30 heresies

Fucking heal me

PART 1 Water Pure Stillness without flavors of absolute total clarity my own light exposed as yours how I do understand my peace you actually deeply caring about what I feel certainties about presence, clarity about definitions of commitment and fidelity me feeling heard and seen you spit out the first, even though you love

They Don’t Feel Like We Do

Now, Washington and its commentariat, in 2026, have a brilliant new idea: The High Iranian Pain Threshold.

Out of the Iranian rubble into the cinematic frame

Smuggled out of the Iran Iraq War at age four with exactly two suitcases, Arash Sedighi channels the gritty survival of his refugee childhood into uncompromising British cinema

Notes from the underground [part 1/2]

The water coursing through the basement tubes calls me back to my work. It’s probably toilet water I’m hearing. The noise is reassuring.

Barbarizsm

Barbara van Ittersum works between staged fiction and portraiture and creates psychologically and psychopathically charged visual scenes called Barbarizsm.

The Divine Banana

Given everything that is happening, and I say this without a hint of irony, I’m saving the irony for the year 2026.

THE WALLS ARE FALLING

“The security guard said you were aggressive.” “He asked me to return the books and I gave them back to him.” “He said you hit him with them.”

Ode to Missor

"Not merely more gas, we've had quite enough of left wing wind and art-talk guff."