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Category Archives: Poetry
Jizo and the Lost Children
They were everywhere in the woods. Clustered in hidden batches, concealed, unseen or barely peeking out from foliage or grass, the verdant estate of jizos, some whose faces had been worn away by the elements, others with shadows and hints … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged children, compassion, japan, jizo, niigata, Poetry, Prose, rabbit, sado island, sketch, travel
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Cause of Light
She stood at a distance, imagining her daughter there, playing. She saw how her daughter lit up with glee when she was near the sea, or scampering along the shoreline, collecting shells, poking holes in the mud with a stick, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged childhood, Dancing, grief, light and shadow, mother and duahgter, past present future, poem, Prose, purge, release, sea, shoreline blues
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A.I.
Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video
Tagged 21st century programming, a.i., building a nuclear family, family refunctioning, identity, intelligence artificialized, poem, Poetry, self immolation, Spoken Word, tech yourself before you wreck yourself, tinders and cinders
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©
Posted in Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video
Tagged copyright, drawn lines, identity, imaginary selves, originality, persona, poem, Poetry, remixes, self, spin doctoring, Spoken Word, words
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Ghost Story
Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video
Tagged dispossessed, ghost story, Mirror, mirror mirror, poem, Poetry, possession, reflections, spiritspeak, Spoken Word
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Titanic
A voyage into the time-haunted unknown, a love story casting two alone as wreckmates aboard a sinking ship in a salacious sea of bop consciousness.
Posted in Audio, Poetry, Prose, Video
Tagged consciousness, love story, novel in progress, ocean, odyssey, Poetry, Prose, sea, vision quest, voyage
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Lyric Alone
Mind over matter, and mind over matter dreaming, and this the lyrical alone, the magnificent hovel and shrine, what it means the lyrical alone sounding sublime, and solitude alone the shrine and hovel, o magnificent bastards of ghostlight, the tenderest … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged dreaming, ghoistlight, lyrical living, mind over matter, Poetry, Prose, shrine, words, worldscape
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Melodrama
Let’s start with this photo, the comic melodrama in which you, perfectly staged, are wearing a blue pinafore dress, your dark hair gagged in pigtails, mouth heavily lipsticked, cheeks cherubically rouged, your eyes two burning ovals of abyss-pooling licorice, sweat … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged bygone era, comic horrors, death, melodrama, penny dreadful, photo, Poetry, Prose, railroads, vaudeville, villain
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Cinema
If cinema is a tomb, then let us die watching. The angel over my shoulder is hunched, dark, morphing. None of us ever leave behind the dark of the theater. We are here, always. Sanctuary, haven, enclave, respite, sitting tight … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged bewitchment, Cinema, Poetry, Prose, real time, screen time, story, trance, trance dancing with words
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