Monthly Archives: October 2012
Oh, Oppressive (for Augusto Boal)
You hit me / like Boal / hit women. My love. Imagine my surprise. Advertisements
Some Growth
Midnight. The minute hand clicks to the right, underscores the hour. Outside second story tenement, a car passes through puddles, beams of light passing over bedroom walls, ceiling. The tick tock of the clock. The scratching of the mice. 3 am. … Continue reading
Yeah, Well…
…my best writing is usually sarcastic. This also comes easier. Like, this… Or, this. Mostly the summary in that one. Which is probably best.
Originally posted on hovercraftdoggy:
Speed boat flying over the water / album cover by Micha Vanony
Contemplation
The Master Stroke Against the Memoir
Who do I admire? Who inspires, teaches me – who blows my perceptions apart and offers me new ones? Not confessional writers. I don’t find memoirs, or poetry that’s purely about the poet, all that interesting. A Winged Dream was … Continue reading
A History of the Electrochemical Society, 1902-1976
Was not my name Ishmael? No. Martin Burns. One of them – not the farmer turned wrestler, nor the cataloguer of the hard stuff. I mean, that guy? That one? He could study the reactions of inorganic salts in solution … Continue reading
