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			<title>Par Avion: Moments</title>
			<description>I cut myself off from a world of friends and hope some days.&amp;nbsp;That I should believe in the notion of forever and in the unity&amp;nbsp;of years spent pondering upon the fragility of connectedness.&amp;nbsp;I raise my cup to an emptiness I feel within: this is surety&amp;nbsp;in the face of seeming calamity ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/2175915/</link>
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			<title>A note to myself</title>
			<description>Rambling.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/2170625/</link>
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			<title>On disappearing...</title>
			<description>First proper thing I've written in months. Which came out in a total rush. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1396159/</link>
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			<title>mornings, diaphanous (relapse)</title>
			<description>there&amp;nbsp;is silence, slow and sinful,&amp;nbsp;the flavour of you I dream of night&amp;nbsp;after night, this etymology of desire&amp;nbsp;cross-twined with the effortless&amp;nbsp;and sublime.&amp;nbsp;it has been months, months of&amp;nbsp;sweat and sleep, the sweat and sleep&amp;nbsp;of a blind boy clinging to moths,&amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1345229/</link>
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			<title>familiarity...</title>
			<description>my&amp;nbsp;definition&amp;nbsp;of real&amp;nbsp;slowly erodes&amp;nbsp;into apple-pie&amp;nbsp;crumble}&amp;nbsp;how to forget&amp;nbsp;how to hold onto&amp;nbsp;passion and its effects&amp;nbsp;its strangulation&amp;nbsp;and the way we perceive&amp;nbsp;how it's all a patterna reflection&amp;nbsp;of how and why&amp;nbsp;there is logic and reason&amp;nb..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1342404/</link>
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			<title>elementals</title>
			<description>to reach out and&amp;nbsp;	compare stories of&amp;nbsp;		how we came to this&amp;nbsp;	place, unbidden&amp;nbsp;but for&amp;nbsp;the draw of like souls&amp;nbsp;	and like minds&amp;nbsp;		exploring the dance&amp;nbsp;	of laughter and tragedy&amp;nbsp;in a circle, always a circle&amp;nbsp;ever-expanding, sewn&amp;nbsp;	with deft fingers&amp;nbsp;	..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1340225/</link>
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			<title>Reminders</title>
			<description>an emptiness. perhaps it's a realisation to want the holy.&amp;nbsp;to feel the holy. as if this conundrum can exist and i can be mercurial&amp;nbsp;in my hope, my dreams, my fire, my passion to be; oh, just to be&amp;nbsp;and forget. that there is anger in my words to you and to that other you&amp;nbsp;transposed ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1337388/</link>
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			<title>meditations on impermanence</title>
			<description>there is something wild&amp;nbsp;in how fortune loses its boneswhen backed up against hills&amp;nbsp;of the umber and sienna&amp;nbsp;of my home&amp;nbsp;traced in the spirals of longing&amp;nbsp;and the disturbance of sleepless fretting&amp;nbsp;over the material focus I've unlearnt&amp;nbsp;and learnt all over again&amp;nbsp;so ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1337386/</link>
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			<title>fragile notions</title>
			<description>a reminder of all&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;that is real, i profess&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;to know nothing of this eternal view&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;outside with you, it is only you&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;i find comfort in&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;in becoming, this w..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1191042/</link>
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			<title>An enquiry, simply</title>
			<description>Perhaps they say it's easier to write&amp;nbsp;when one's witnessed death, not this slow&amp;nbsp;curl of yellow archways and young boys risking limbs&amp;nbsp;up infant trees. If only Vikings were here to cause fear and full&amp;nbsp;disclosure: of one's apparent sins, echoed in chapel light and trembling&amp;nbsp;fin..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1186533/</link>
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			<title>Eos</title>
			<description>Twin piece to 'Antares', I guess. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1186529/</link>
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			<title>formless / belonging</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;				formless belonging&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;the arterial roots of wind&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nb..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1163700/</link>
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			<title>noon at long bay</title>
			<description>i am still a child, uncertain.&amp;nbsp;pendulums, the way of shared&amp;nbsp;and unbroken love.&amp;nbsp;about me and this other me, fickle and undying,&amp;nbsp;let them read of stones and leaves underneath&amp;nbsp;the passing of strangers.how i come to this place, knowing there is only the quiet of my heart,&amp;nbsp;t..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1163699/</link>
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			<title>gabbyboo</title>
			<description>wandering expanse:&amp;nbsp;the warmth&amp;nbsp;of unspoken words&amp;nbsp;that could be&amp;nbsp;naked in their freedom&amp;nbsp;to express calamity&amp;nbsp;or desire:pure love&amp;nbsp;that keeps on rolling&amp;nbsp;and the inward gaze&amp;nbsp;of knowing there&amp;nbsp;is only you.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1163698/</link>
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			<title>par avion: fragments</title>
			<description>to will&amp;nbsp;flocks of birds&amp;nbsp;into the air&amp;nbsp;to break their bones&amp;nbsp;and watch their centres&amp;nbsp;crumplethe wheel and distorted actionthe snap and shadow&amp;nbsp;of a life reborninto a moment which breeds&amp;nbsp;another moment&amp;nbsp;to confide in</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1163697/</link>
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			<title>Antares</title>
			<description>This is my world&amp;nbsp;of flightless sleepconjoined harmonies&amp;nbsp;and the stale air&amp;nbsp;of a room&amp;nbsp;wallowing&amp;nbsp;in the darkness&amp;nbsp;of my youth.&amp;nbsp;*These memories are candles, tapered&amp;nbsp;and unlit, stars and yet more stars&amp;nbsp;beacons to grasp&amp;nbsp;between my fingertips.&amp;nbsp;*I hold y..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1065517/</link>
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			<title>mornings, diaphanous</title>
			<description>Wrote this an hour ago at 6am, having not slept yet. Kind of shows, I think. 
Terribly unsure about it, yet secretly relieved I managed to bash something out for once. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1049648/</link>
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			<title>melpomene</title>
			<description>remember the calm blue light&amp;nbsp;crested over the mountainside&amp;nbsp;dappled and quickly turning to silver.&amp;nbsp;how night reflects a post-mortem desire:&amp;nbsp;scalpel to an awaiting incision,&amp;nbsp;leaves sloughing as an autumnal gift,&amp;nbsp;a basket of prayers and free-fall longing&amp;nbsp;plumbing the ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1046113/</link>
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			<title>temples, violets</title>
			<description>a confession of violetsand a storm in halfmoon bay. how to saythis closeness defiesall attempts atdefinition.*perhaps it is youin this ruin of my bodymoments according to&amp;nbsp;need and temptationlight suffused intoa prism of sharingand the sorrowful&amp;nbsp;joy of freedom.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1046111/</link>
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			<title>erato</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;how&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/1045523/</link>
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			<title>between borders</title>
			<description>presume to say all indifference is shallow&amp;nbsp;or that closeness breeds a certain shade of&amp;nbsp;suffering&amp;nbsp;held to the light, no microscope or firm thesis&amp;nbsp;gives any fuller clarity than the language of&amp;nbsp;hope&amp;nbsp;ripened by the rays of the sun, cherry-burnt,&amp;nbsp;these arms are in tune ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/874757/</link>
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			<title>ask...</title>
			<description>that&amp;nbsp;everything should fall&amp;nbsp;into place sideways, a furtive glance&amp;nbsp;and what could be's in silence&amp;nbsp;a virtuous companion.&amp;nbsp;gather leaves with&amp;nbsp;haiku written in its veins.&amp;nbsp;spring is an empress, an eternal face.&amp;nbsp;oblivion, a far-away earthquake&amp;nbsp;for believers to q..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/874597/</link>
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			<title>Circumventions, related thereof</title>
			<description>Still, I confess&amp;nbsp;there is much more to unearth&amp;nbsp;and understand about certain connotations&amp;nbsp;- the ability to breathe when cold envelops&amp;nbsp;- the span of fingers broken to fit- the sure melody of grace when it overcomes&amp;nbsp;the source of whatever pain it took to state&amp;nbsp;the overwhel..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/793190/</link>
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			<title>Orbits</title>
			<description>I give you&amp;nbsp;silence, solace&amp;nbsp;The burst of a Sunday spent in&amp;nbsp;sleepy reflection, the city's skyline&amp;nbsp;Traced in frost and the freedom&amp;nbsp;from touch which inhibits, is drawn to&amp;nbsp;Covet that which it cannot be&amp;nbsp;through a star's alignment foretelling&amp;nbsp;Grace and mystery: the P..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/756145/</link>
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			<title>foibles</title>
			<description>if, as tomorrow promises, fulfillment will be measured&amp;nbsp;by both joy and sorrow, this is how my unborn children&amp;nbsp;should quench their unformed instincts&amp;nbsp;after me&amp;nbsp;to sing and dance within a storm, finessing the clouds&amp;nbsp;with articulations meant when no one else is around&amp;nbsp;to di..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/756144/</link>
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			<title>Aurora in June</title>
			<description>She becomes the shadow&amp;nbsp;you are tempted to hold&amp;nbsp;and show the sun to&amp;nbsp;as a barrel-chested sky of mourning&amp;nbsp;departs, cirrus feathers of orangeblossom&amp;nbsp;giving way to a freedom found&amp;nbsp;in the sophistry of&amp;nbsp;revelation.&amp;nbsp;*A cup half-drained and stowed away&amp;nbsp;beyond the w..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/742474/</link>
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			<title>4 years</title>
			<description>The firmament above, the Southern Cross&amp;nbsp;wrapped up in my infancy, fifty miles to&amp;nbsp;Pukeoware's undulating hills, the merest mention&amp;nbsp;of macrocarpa and I am transported back&amp;nbsp;when all was transparently still, comfortable,&amp;nbsp;the smooth feel of warm eggs nestled amongst hay&amp;nbsp;and ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/730046/</link>
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			<title>Argentina</title>
			<description>What dreams, stilled by night's solace and the inflections flinching&amp;nbsp;from words unspoken, freedom unwritten in the distance between two&amp;nbsp;days ago and now, summer too long gone, the city a straining shadow&amp;nbsp;of emptiness disguised as faces I hurriedly know, as bodies torn over&amp;nbsp;the sa..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/730042/</link>
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			<title>&amp;</title>
			<description>To be certain of this, I must define fate and its parameters&amp;nbsp;and how it urges to be nostalgic when hope deserts the mind.&amp;nbsp;I must speak plainly. I must converge and not distort&amp;nbsp;this figurative cosmopolitan sense of a seven day reversal&amp;nbsp;of all that I've tried to combine.&amp;nbsp;Lux, ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/730038/</link>
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			<title>river rose</title>
			<description>a tiny sun within the folds of your dress, simply made,&amp;nbsp;afforded scant decoration. these mountains hold no secrets&amp;nbsp;beyond the art of rivers searching for the next bend,&amp;nbsp;the downward rush, alluvial&amp;nbsp;and well-spent.&amp;nbsp;in the eclipse of your throat, harmony is transparent.&amp;nbsp;in..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/730033/</link>
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			<title>elsa and johann</title>
			<description>Imagination is a silly place. And I needed to post something not as emo as my previous ones, I think. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/705451/</link>
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			<title>honesty is such a letdown...</title>
			<description>From a different part of my life. I'm still, after all these years, a bit sensitive about this one. How emo.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/705445/</link>
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			<title>Friday Night at the Wine Cellar</title>
			<description>Another one I'd almost forgotten about. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/705441/</link>
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			<title>Crows</title>
			<description>Found this buried somewhere. Written a lifetime ago, it seems.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/705430/</link>
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			<title>Minor Fifth</title>
			<description>I don't know anymore. About what poetry is supposed to mean or sound like. I guess that's freeing in a way, to be able to entirely forget. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/679311/</link>
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			<title>contrasts</title>
			<description>Catholic poetesses are bad for your health. I swear.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/669673/</link>
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			<title>Matakana, New Years</title>
			<description>Written last January. &quot;Cor ad cor loquitur&quot; translates to &quot;Heart speaks to heart.&quot; </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/669672/</link>
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			<title>Jan 15</title>
			<description>I don't see you in me, in the dust-sheaths covering&amp;nbsp;this room we choose to inhabit for one night spent wondering&amp;nbsp;at our differences, the A to B simplicity which we connote&amp;nbsp;as fallacy, a dying moon imploding or just losing its gravitational&amp;nbsp;attraction, the five minutes until a cir..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/665801/</link>
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			<title>If ever I knew you like this / 4 days before Christmas and I need a new life</title>
			<description>Old. Confessional. Part 1 and 2, kinda. But not really.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/663000/</link>
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			<title>Elliptic</title>
			<description>I exchange sleepless oceans with you, many you's, all in one&amp;nbsp;disordered evening where everything feels right not to make sense&amp;nbsp;in any way, as if this disconnection is somehow a holy fragmentfrom a wise man who sailed under the stars centuries ago,&amp;nbsp;to escape attention, conversation, th..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/662997/</link>
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			<title>sepulchre</title>
			<description>there's endless truth in eyes&amp;nbsp;clouded over, looking away as if&amp;nbsp;you'd catch this and smile.&amp;nbsp;it's incense and pearls on a fine day.&amp;nbsp;it's fingers outstretched, searching for divinity in flesh&amp;nbsp;and communion in dreaming escapades.&amp;nbsp;a house of cards, as always, toppling,&amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/650205/</link>
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			<title>Chiaroscuro</title>
			<description>To lose faith daily&amp;nbsp;upon the inanimate and easily destroyed,of the diaphanous and frail fingers I remember&amp;nbsp;from ten years ago, and why I've not seen fit to&amp;nbsp;follow your call.&amp;nbsp;You know Florence has always whispered; Barcelona, maybe,&amp;nbsp;an epiphany of paella and fragrant dancing,..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/650201/</link>
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			<title>December 14</title>
			<description>I grasp for a beginning to this headlong dream&amp;nbsp;buried in nervousness and a never-ending confession&amp;nbsp;given only to shimmering. Of night and the soft melody of words&amp;nbsp;precious and precociously open, the not-quite-painted veneer&amp;nbsp;of so many cities washed under my version of the apocaly..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/648167/</link>
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			<title>tri-fold</title>
			<description>a form of retrospective, moon-eyed, believing&amp;nbsp;yet disbelieving at once, at the mercurial, bittersweet&amp;nbsp;temptations of mind and body and lips, of sugar and spice&amp;nbsp;and all that fits with my assumption of eternal, orchestral:&amp;nbsp;the fusion of experience in devotion, of mary magdalene&amp;nbs..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/645898/</link>
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			<title>October 23</title>
			<description>Haven't been on this for forever, it seems. A quick scribble written moments ago, nothing more.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/622800/</link>
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			<title>Thelma</title>
			<description>A measure of your loss that you would stand there counting&amp;nbsp;the sixteen years you've passed over, a handkerchief&amp;nbsp;of sapphires from a beloved who died.&amp;nbsp;You've never named him or sung his stories, his presence&amp;nbsp;a muted guide to whatever house he built inside to capture sky.&amp;nbsp;Only..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/537409/</link>
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			<title>Asleep</title>
			<description>Time grazes her fingers politely&amp;#8213;an arc, a shadow, and all is still, all will unfold.&amp;nbsp;Excess, in demeaning oneself to empty promises&amp;nbsp;whispered at three in the morning, or just past. As if belonging should have a place&amp;nbsp;when stuck half a world away, and all one wants is a firm bod..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/537407/</link>
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			<title>Repository</title>
			<description>Autobiographical in many ways. It's been forever since I posted here. So, um, there you go.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/532501/</link>
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			<title>Brushstrokes</title>
			<description>Lots of happenings, all combined? I guess, yes.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/496190/</link>
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			<title>Cataluna's Song</title>
			<description>Catalonia personified&amp;#2013266071;in a buried rhymes sonnet, I guess. About time I posted something here again, I figured. Eh. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Jason_Morales/478456/</link>
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