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The Small and the Loud of It, Poetry Dept.

And then the closest thing to a slam sort of poem I think I’ve ever written, also written one day this week on the way to work. Continue reading

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The Stars are Caught in the Tops of the Trees

The stars are caught in the tops of the trees Continue reading

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Behind the Logging Truck

the load looks top heavy •
but holds past the curve Continue reading

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The Thrush and the Nightingale

OMG internet. After all these years, you can still surprise me. From the Auchinleck Manuscript – “one of the National Library of Scotland’s greatest treasures. Produced in London in the 1330s, it provides a unique insight into the English language … Continue reading

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Art and working within restrictions

he more beautiful the art, the more it is essentially the work of people who feel themselves wrong; — who are striving for the fulfillment of a law, and the grasp of a loveliness, which they have not yet attained, which they feel even farther and farther from attaining, the more they strive for it. – John Ruskin Continue reading

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