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TURN, Again
A brief discourse or disinquisition decide for yourself on prevarication, pigeon holing and metaphor etc. whatever. Continue reading
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MUSES
(from ACTS OF COMPLICITY, stories ) He began without enthusiasm. A crowded room filled with indifference. Open windows. Urban … calefaction. That should do. He took a cloth from his pocket, his glasses from his face, and polished their lenses. He replaced his glasses, gathered his thoughts, nodded once, and began. “Art,” he said, “is… Continue reading
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AN OPPOSITE PLACE
Remote areas that allow for exploration, introspection, and recreation are, like honest men, difficult to find. But those who are confined by chance or choice have discovered a wilderness closer at hand, an abundant, limitless region which is accessible without the need to leave one’s arm chair. Here is the domain of the philosopher, the… Continue reading
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4 POEMS
Poetry from my 2015 book, Conversations with a Hypoxic Dog, an eclectic few words that range from ghetto to cosmos. Continue reading
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QUIET
Stolen, the small blue Pullman placard stipulated QUIET is requested for the benefit of those who have retired. Sitting on a chair, wooden, straight backed craftsman style, perhaps oak, old with a bit of a wobble not unlike myself, the field uncultivated for donkey’s years, surrounding for acres with a copse of planted populars, aligned,… Continue reading
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BLOOMSDAY
The books of James Joyce, Ulysses in particular, were banned and burned by both British and American publishing pundits although several were lauded as literary masterpieces. A child of a rancorous, impoverished family, educated in Dublin by Jesuits, he held himself invulnerable behind a wall of aesthetic and ethical abstractions, rejecting family, nation, and church… Continue reading
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