The Flea

" A poem is stored energy, a formal turbulence, a living thing, a swirl in the flow. Poems are part of the energy pathways which sustain life. Poems are averbal equivalent of fossil fuel (stored energy), but they are a renewable source of energy, coming, as they do, from those ever generative twin matrices, language and imagination."

"Kuşlar söyler ahvâli, ahvâl bilir hakikati."                                                           - Geyikli "All over the world learning the language of animals, especially of birds, is equivalent to knowing the secrets of nature...."                                                       - Mircea Eliade

''Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man -let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall- or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.''

Home is where I lay my dreams.