by Mike Nyerges | Dec 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
How to Express The Need To Flee How do I express this need to flee? This need to stay? To remember unfinished conversations? To witness with you the passing of time? It is the body I sleep with, wake with, mine and yours, that are open to the ecstasy of the snow...
by Mike Nyerges | Nov 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Moment of Whispers It comes, a moment whispering. Trees in the deepening stillness of dusk. Their pale silhouettes seemingly weightless. Rising in a fading light. Shadows in the snow. A day’s ending palimpsest on winter parchment. 2021, Lincoln Hill Trails,...
by Mike Nyerges | Nov 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
What is Light What is light? Felt, measured, created, photographed, painted, it’s like anything else, like love or envy. Something private. Something not. Something in shadow. Something open. Something seen. Something not. 2021, ICM Photo, Stid Hill...
by Mike Nyerges | Nov 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Infinity’s Mockery The rushing wind is oblivious of the roiling leaves, or of the light dragging the shadows through the trees, or of our stories, the fusions of self and place, the iterations of mind, these expressionist forms, here, the buried matrices of time and...
by Mike Nyerges | Jul 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Easter Ended as We Drove Easter ended as we drove home on the interstate, the moon nearly full and rising. Even the boys commented on it, a preternaturally large, grey mass lying low in the sky, an old coin. A bead rubbed smooth over the millennia. A hard, airless...
by Mike Nyerges | Jun 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Roots of Awareness In each of us, There are faces hidden, Yet to be seen, Yet to be justified,Moment to moment, Joy, fear, beauty, suffering, cruelty, —Phylogenetic forcesRooted in entropy’s temporary defeats. The drive to survive. Emergence of the other, then of...
