SKULLWORDS
That’s the title of one of Ivan the Ghostseer’s collections. He wrote what he saw. And he saw death. He saw ghosts. He saw the underside of life, which was always on the knife’s edge of dreamdeath. Copyright concerns do not allow publication of the author’s works without his consent. The author may not truly have the capacity to consent because he may be more in the other world beyond everyone else’s reality. The author may be a madman, he may even be a genius, but not one to consent. Madness is in the eye of the beholder, and the edge between madness and genius runs close to both notions. Madness demands life on the edge, genius does sometimes too. But we are permitted to describe images and things in his poems like the “nerves of existence,” “despair,” a “knife,” “blood like
