For the full text of Tennyson’s Tithonus see: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45389/tithonus If it were as a shadow, I’d accept The gift of living a very long life: Though gifted only in a thought that crept In my ear as if escaped from the strife It sought to save me from: being ended Too soon, or too long … More ‘A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream / The ever-silent spaces of the East, / …’: If it were as a shadow ….

It has always seemed obvious to me that we are wrong to think of the person as a single  and self-sufficient entity, rather than an assembly and network of relationships in which different perceptions of, and by it, over space and actions with consequences interact. Some organisms can exist alone, but they can not have … More Without relationship would there be a person?

Detail from B&W photograph of Anthony Micallef Animal Head (Oil on linen ) 140 cm x 140 cm Lazarides catalogue of show in Sept – October 2009, p.16. When I tried writing this I began to  imagine the case, common enough in Caribbean slavery, of white male rape of young enslaved black men and boys. … More This man has made his mark, if that’s impact / …