Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Tim Barrus: Quantum Field

    Even his teeth were an apprehensiveness like loudspeakers crank it up in secrets because they are conflicted.

  2. Tim Barrus: The Bright Burning Orphan In The Front Row

    And we do hope to find perhaps oblivion.

  3. Tim Barrus: What Has Night Got To Do With Sleep

    I got lost in the hotel. It was a big hotel. Sometimes, I do not know where I am. I am not always aware of who I am, for that matter. Wearing the skin of someone else. I sat on the stairs waiting for someone to come by. Hopefulluy before…

  4. Tim Barrus: We Burn Daylight

    True, I speak of dreaming in the afternoon and reading out on my cabin’s tin-roof, I can stand and see the otters back again. The otters are haunted. The demented truth which cunning time assumes Say This is a cold decree rotten to the snake who lives and dies inside…

  5. Tim Barrus, My Appalachia

    Imagination flows now, a great constancy and the beggermaid.  

  6. Tim Barrus: The Palm Tree’s Name Was Romeo

    Romeo was witness to a thousand things a day in that chicken-scratch yard it seems to want to escape from Get Me Out of Here. This palm tree is the moon. I am the man in the moon. This dying house is my dying house. This book, my dog.

  7. Tim Barrus: If Sexuality Were As If

    If by what degree history itself represents, mainly motal armies as they sleep. Even their bones come from wounds. I have made mince meat from a strange and bitter world.  

  8. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    Different personas. Don’t think for one second, you will not be punished. For that. There will be no redemption. I was h-i-m for well over a decade. I can hear his voice. I can touch his grief, his tongue, and none of it involved  telling me what to do. It

  9. Tim Barrus: Do Not Let Them Break Your Heart

    Our days there were grim. Bedrolls and the Gypsy whose someone is the cups and is after you.  

  10. Tim Barrus: Crows Again

    The best part of that trip was Waffle House.