The Boy – Marcus Demetrius Link

Pathways through the Mandelbrot Set – Part VI

Part VI of The Way of the Fool (forthcoming): the Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry as a map of the Fool's recursive journey through self and world. Essay

The Quality of the Fool – Part V

Part V of The Way of the Fool: the Fool not as a philosophy but as a quality of consciousness — a way of meeting life rather than a doctrine to hold. Essay

A Medley of Fools Heralds the Journey Within the Journey – Part IV

Part IV of The Way of the Fool: the many faces of the Fool — holy fool, jester, innocent — and the journey within the journey they herald. Essay

Wholeness is the Fool’s Business – Part III

Part III of The Way of the Fool: why wholeness, not cleverness, is the Fool's true work — and the inner guides who teach what no human master can. Essay

A Wondrous Fellow Appears Out of the Darkness – Part II

Part II of The Way of the Fool: the Fool appears as a guide out of the darkness, and what it means to recognise oneself among those who belong to him. Essay

About the Boy – Part I

Part I of The Way of the Fool: how the Boy — an inner companion first met at nineteen — became the figure through whom a lifetime of writing finds its voice. Story

The Father and the Mother Make a Cage for the Boy

The Boy's parents — erratic Mothers, clockwork Fathers — build a cage around him: a story of the labels and expectations that quietly enclose a child. Poem

this One will live yet

Written alongside The Boy Jumps Ship, narrowed to the Stinger and the Stirring. Story

The Boy Jumps Ship

The Boy has been at sea all his life without knowing it. The day he wakes on the deck and sees the ship for the first time, he jumps. Story

The Soul Phone Won’t Stop Ringing

The Boy paces a hallway that will not let him arrive, between the bedrooms of his family, as the soul's phone rings and rings with news of death. Story

The Right Time for Coffee But Not for the Boy

'I don't have to make you packed lunches to love you,' says the Mother. A story of a boy who learns to fend for himself, and of love measured out. Story

Of Grey Eyes Staring Black Holes Into the Wall

A scene from the Boy's childhood: the warmth of bedtime and being read to, and the grey eyes that stare black holes into the wall, slipping out of the shared world into an inner one. Story

The Scalding Porridge Remedy for Alleged Sibling Rivalry

A breakfast-table scene from the Boy's early childhood: a pot of piping-hot porridge, three small children, and a first reckoning with justice. Story

The Boy Slips Out of Himself

The Boy walks away from his family, closes his bedroom door and listens at the keyhole: a story of the secret, forbidden half-dark where he slips out of himself. Poem

Bits and Pieces of the Soul

A boy sits on the floor before a heap of shards and takes the broken pile for the centre of his life. Story

The Tale of Two Tomorrows

A fable of the Little Girl, the Old Man and a sycamore seed turning in a glass jar: every life is like a seed, and this is a tale of two tomorrows.