We jump off from the beginning already spinning controlled tight as a wheel almost unknowing of the quarter beat missed. I think of open mouths gasping a planet ready to swallow us whole as I continue to roll propelled by my inertia by yours as we wax, as we reach in light of gravity all I see,… Continue reading The Trapeze
What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question we’re asked repeatedly as children, and it becomes a question many of us ask ourselves in high school, college, and well into adulthood. My Dad, well into his eighties now, still jokes that he better decide what he’s going to be when… Continue reading You Are Your Own Oz
I've come undone, a bit I see you’re looking critical Greater than my sum, I sit Can you see beyond this citadel? You're frightened of a falling sheet A slice of life unspoken The brittleness of tawny pleats Portends adventures broken Only the hero will furl the cover Read the first word, and the second… Continue reading Emma Undone
What is it about shadows we find so magical? Adults and children, alike, are lured by projections on the wall, or the figures striding alongside us on sidewalks, all beckoning us to an otherworld where doppelgängers take on lives of their own, existences we can only begin to imagine. The shadow is where mystery resides. It… Continue reading The Art and Science of Shadows
There is a scene in HBO’s 2008 epic miniseries, John Adams, when Adams entreats Thomas Jefferson to write a “declaration of principles,” what would become United States’ Declaration of Independence. “I have a great opinion of the elegance of your pen,” he tells Jefferson, “and none at all of my own.” Watching that scene was… Continue reading The Truth in the Pen
For almost fifteen years, I have been fascinated by a giant pink bunny. Resting atop a hill in the Italian Alps since 2005, Rabbit, in its original state, at least, exuded the innocence of a child's favorite worn plushy, with its wayward limbs and its one-eyed, wide-eyed stare. Nearly the entirety of the 200-feet long,… Continue reading Giant Pink Bunny
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