taylor Archives - Antarctica Journal

Poem – THE ESTHETICS OF SELF (By Peter Taylor)

November 22, 2024 Antarctica Journal

THE ESTHETICS OF SELF Against the horizon, you must always consider three skies: the one you see, the one you think about, and the one that’s really there. Our illusions falter on an edge we prefer to imagine, a definition beyond sight. But the eye has no horizon, the mind no extension beyond itself. […]

Poetry

Poem – THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS (By Peter Taylor)

October 13, 2024 Antarctica Journal

THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS I remember now. Air so still you could hear it breathing through the frozen shrouds, the crack of floes caressing hulls as if ships could talk to each other. Men slept fully clothed, smoked, drank tea, cooked, read books from the library, and pretended that this was all normal. On holidays […]

Poetry

Light and Heat for a frozen world

Tag: taylor

Poem – THE ESTHETICS OF SELF (By Peter Taylor)

Poem – THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS (By Peter Taylor)