Through the Years: The Weissinger-Gaulbert Building, part 1 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Continuing the Renaissance of Downtown Louisville

"Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust" by Eimear McBride open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... ...The journey to rendering this disgust obsolete begins with women noticing and identifying it for what it is and it will end only when we have taught ourselves, and everyone else, to refuse it...

"Insolence" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …For Heidegger what subtends the sense of space is the sense of nothingness; the space of the world is the very abyss of death…__Alphonso Lingis

Incest, Adultery, and How It Relates to Me (part 6 of 9) open.substack.com/pub/themarri... What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers.___To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

"Naïve. Super" by Erlend Loe open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... His over-adjustment to this uncomfortable predicament is to simply throw a ball against a wall all night or repeatedly hammer wooden pegs into a board.

Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

Poem #1455 by Emily Dickinson open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... Previously published on the mothership September 6, 2023 in art, literary, self-realization, writing

The Making of a Hotwife: Getting to Be of Some Moment open.substack.com/pub/themarri... or why fuck up a perfectly good marriage?

"Moment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript" by Jens Bjørnebo open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... The deeper the feeling, said Leonardo, the greater the pain.

Sunday Shift! open.substack.com/pub/themarri... celebrating her vocation in nude-art modeling.

"The Cornhuskers Gather" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem from the book Little War Machine

Raymond Carver's "Call If You Need Me" open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... What is also intriguing to me is that almost every book I have read during this current and indulgent study of mine lacks any considerable mentions regarding Carver’s long-time editor Gordon Lish...

Through the Years: Blackacre State Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead, part 7 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Owned and managed by Jefferson County Schools in Louisville, Kentucky

"Against Art: (The Notebooks)" by Tomas Espedal open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... I do know he once agreed to dress up in a white wedding gown and pose for a young woman’s art project.

"Out of the Woods" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book A STOP TO SEE HEPATICA: (The Hepaticas 2019-2022) published in 2024

Incest, Adultery, and How It Relates to Me (part 5 of 9) open.substack.com/pub/themarri... …Dogs are stupid, you can get them to suck on a plastic bone, and they’re stupid, dogs believe you.___Incest by Christine Angot

"Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously" by Jessica Pan open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …And I have just seen a stag in the forest at dawn…

Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

Poem #1438 by Emily Dickinson open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... Previously published on the mothership September 4, 2023 in art, literary, poetry, relationships, self-realization, writing

A Beast in Search of Time open.substack.com/pub/themarri... …For a long time she must have remained the queen of his desire, his personal link with emotion...

"Crazy Horse (Penguin Lives)" by Larry McMurtry open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …Don’t imagine the dead are at peace. The dead are at your mercy. __Ellen Hinsey

Sunday Shift! open.substack.com/pub/themarri... celebrating her vocation in nude-art modeling.

"Endurance of the Void," by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... a poem taken from Little War Machine

"Hill William" by Scott McClanahan open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …in some strange and perverted manner it seems he did get the fuck he wanted and thought he deserved…

Through the Years: Blackacre State Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead, part 6 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Owned and managed by Jefferson County Schools in Louisville, Kentucky

"Yes" by Thomas Bernhard open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... Yes, the ending is quite unforgiving but the journey getting there is worth the ultimately lessened, or lessoned, discomfort and pain.

"A Wrongful Death" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book A STOP TO SEE HEPATICA: (The Hepaticas 2019-2022) published in 2024

Incest, Adultery, and How It Relates to Me (part 4 of 9) open.substack.com/pub/themarri... …For Freud, the aim of analysis was not to remember, but to establish sufficient states of forgetting.___On Flirtation by Adam Phillips

"Her 37th Year, An Index" by Suzanne Scanlon open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... another creative book review

Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

"Embers" by Sándor Márai open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... “… Do you also believe that what gives our lives their meaning is the passion that suddenly invades us heart, soul, and body, and burns in us forever, no matter what happens in our lives?”___from Embers

Clouds So Swift open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Mathematically, our remaining days are sadly not long for this life.

"Our Quarrel, and the Woods" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …Christ, no—literature’s not what I look to poetry for. Fear is…__Gordon Lish from his story How To Write A Poem

Sunday Shift! open.substack.com/pub/themarri... celebrating her vocation in nude-art modeling.

"This Is About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate: Stories" by Diane Williams open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... ...I was saying all of the appropriate things to everyone to get happiness from the happiness, to have a good time at the good time and I was getting it done...

"Should We Stay or Should We Go" by Lionel Shriver open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... end of life choices

Through the Years: Blackacre State Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead, part 5 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Owned and managed by Jefferson County Schools in Louisville, Kentucky

Having a Good Time in the Face of Disaster open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... notes regarding the ongoing "Argument"

"The Larchmont Hotel" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... …Anyway, who’s the kidder here—the poet in the poem or the poet not in it?__Gordon Lish from his story How To Write A Poem

Incest, Adultery, and How It Relates to Me (part 3 of 9) open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Like a Leaf That Has Loosened from the Tree

"The Following Story" by Cees Nooteboom open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... Long ago I quit beating myself up for not understanding a certain text.

Mistaken as Art in Photography open.substack.com/pub/themarri... The Trouble with Tuesdays

"Pereira Declares" by Antonio Tabucchi open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... I find it quite daunting to pin down exactly what made this novel so much fun for me to read.

Danger Lies in Delay open.substack.com/pub/themarri... My tools have always been crude affairs and even at times homemade.

"Corner of Newman and Washington" by M Sarki open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... poem taken from the book A STOP TO SEE HEPATICA: (The Hepaticas 2019-2022) published in 2024

Sunday Shift! open.substack.com/pub/themarri... celebrating her vocation in nude-art modeling.

"Moldy Figs," Chapter 7 open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... Texture the Skin of Old People

"Devouring Time: Jim Harrison, a Writer’s Life" by Todd Goddard open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... he lived to write, and to eat, and drink, and scour the land hunting and fishing for wild game and willing females

Through the Years: Blackacre State Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead, part 4 open.substack.com/pub/themarri... Owned and managed by Jefferson County Schools in Louisville, Kentucky

The New Bull of Meaning: Review of M Sarki's "Zimble Zamble Zumble" open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p... author's first book of poetry published in 2000