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Tag Archives: imagination
Causeless
We used to be called human, that is, our actions were considered human if we acted with compassion and mercy. Yet we have been killing and maiming and igniting wars since time immemorial … so isn’t that, based on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged a.i., ai, artificial-intelligence, being human, creative spirit, definitions, essay, fiction, imagination, life, longhand, lost causes, process, Prose, speculation, story, technology, thoughts, writing
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Manna
Do not say the thing that is easily said. Say the other, say the nothing, say the silence, say the unsayable, and save yourself (sort of) through the saying. Gold dust wafts down like filigreed motes from a rain-swollen ceiling. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged art, between worlds, ghosts, haruki murakami, imagination, longing, memory, novel, patti smith, psychic, realms, time, words
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Because the Night
Half-punk-scarecrow, half-mystic-urchin, Patti Smith seems to exist on the yellowed edges of saudade: the time-carved café table, the books she carried with her on her trips (as trusted and beloved companions), the way she packs light like The Fool, her … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged artist, because the night, fragment, imagination, music, patti smith, Poetry, Prose, romantic, vision, visionary, writer
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Review Tales
Excerpt from Jeyran Main’s recently published review of The Jackdaw and the Doll on “Review Tales.” “The Jackdaw and the Doll is an ode to the storyteller’s journey, a celebration of the art that arises from the deepest wells of … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged Artwork, fable, flight, haunted, imagination, kafka, magic, Review, storytelling
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Recorded Live
In the cinema, hypnotized. I died a drugged and stupefied death again and again, crucified by the diminished returns of flickering images. I die, tranquilized, a sweetly solemn refugee from reality. This is the escapist way, its creed. Why pretend … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged between worlds, birthing process, Cinema, deathing process, dreams, imagination, novel in progress, recording, story, syndication, waiting, wordpray, words, writing life, wuz here
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Alchemical Cahoots
The year of alchemy. Alchemical means. The invisible world. Crosses and cruxes and crossroads. There are, the wizard explained, contracts with the invisible world. There are binding contracts. And ones that can be dissolved. How can I tell the difference … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, creation, imagination, merlin's pearls, Poetry, soul contracts, way of the wizard, writing
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Jackdaw and the Doll (2nd Edition)
After a brief period of being out of print, a new edition of The Jackdaw and the Doll is now available. “Yokoyama’s graphite illustrations …fashion an understated, symbolic elegy for a famous literary voice … Poetic descriptions of Kafka’s storytelling deftly capture … Continue reading
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Tagged art, fable, imagination, jackdaw and the doll, kafka, Literary, magical realism, pen and ink, Publication, shadows, storytelling, sumi-e
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Less, More
From the series, Japan Poems. Intimacy bred and cultivated by narrowest confines is the progenitor and best advocate for imagination’s nubile foreplay in limitless spaces dreamed up in real time.
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Tagged alley, imagination, intimacy, japan, niigata, poem, scene, street
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Here There Be Dream Tigers
Here we are hooded in shadows with tigers green fire eyes lighting up new seasons. Tigers green fire eyes the forests of emeralds burning of bedazzlement and jade bewitching. We enter calmly at our own risk. We heard that one … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Prose
Tagged abstract, dreams, forests, imagination, Mark Rothko, myth, story, tigers, words
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John Biscello 