Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with masks
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
PEOPLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ASK ME MANY, MANY THINGS. OFTEN, I HAVE NO ANSWERS. TODAY THE NEW YORK TIMES BRINGS QUESTIONS FROM READERS THAT ARE STUNNED BY THE ROLE RELIGION PLAYS IN DENIAL AND INTOLERANCE Religion has abandoned its roots of martyrdom for Institutional Martyrdom even as its…
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Going Rogue
I ride a motorcycle. I wear a mask and helmet. I wear a face shied. I am a photographer. I do some work at home. But not all of it. I wear medical gloves when I get gas. Throw the gloves away. A New York Times reader called me incredibly…
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Where Your Eyes Were
these openings, these candles in the eyes whose sockets saw desire, these and then forgiveness/ what you were was hunted down/ yielding in release, we smile in the dark knowing our names are not our names/ they are simply the names given to us, in rooms of loneliness, we would…