The Ache of Solitude

Holy the groanings

Collage by Matt Steel · Original art from Wellcome Library, London

“It ever was, and is, and shall be,
ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled
and in measures going out.”
– Heraclitus

All my life I’ve been an outsider. I’ve never quite fit in the places I’ve found myself. A bramble in the wheel, a scratch on the record, an alien squinting at an…