On Shakespeare’s and Mark Twain’s Graves
If Shakespeare were an American, we’d call him an all-American success story.
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
If Shakespeare were an American, we’d call him an all-American success story.

“After all this time/To believe in Jesus…I thought I was Him.”

A wordless protest album that almost sounds like something I might’ve listened to on my mission.

Somebody gotta save my soul.

There are intelligences even in the discarded candy-bar receipts and notebooks.

I was thinking ‘bout my time in space/I was thinking ’bout the human race…
Zion is fled.

Almost too on the nose, I had to fly to a funeral over Easter weekend. Even more on the nose, I watched the 2024 film Conclave as my in-flight movie just three days before Pope Francis passed away Easter Monday.
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