At the river’s lowered skin,the bank lies exposed like a wound,and the blackened roots reach outas if to remember the bodythat once fed them. Branches claw from ruined trunks,grafting themselves to rot,to splinter, to silence,as though decay were onlyanother name for hunger. Along the mud,seed and thorn and ruingather in shivering patches—a fever of grasses,a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The River’s Undead Garden” – Rooted Flotsam, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Timon of Athens by Shakespeare
Timon of Athens is one of this playwright’s most unsettling experiments: a play about generosity that curdles into misanthropy, a tragedy in which money is not merely a practical concern but the force that reorganizes affection, language, and identity itself. It is also a drama of glaring imbalance. The first half glitters with social performance … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Timon of Athens by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Tidebound Renewal” – Rooted Flotsam, v.2
At the river’s low-breathed edge,branches stir again,grafting themselves to the hush of dying trunks,as if the tide, in withdrawing,had left a secret pulse behind. Seeds, once scattered and nearly forgotten,rise as stubborn grassesthat stipple the groundaround these living pillars—small green vowswritten in the mud. The wind moves throughwith its pale freight of sand and pollen,and … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Tidebound Renewal” – Rooted Flotsam, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Coriolanus by Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is one of his bleakest political tragedies: a play that strips public life down to appetite, humiliation, and force. Unlike the more expansive moral worlds of Hamlet or King Lear, this drama is severe, almost stark in its anatomy of civic life. It asks a brutal question: what happens when a warrior trained … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Coriolanus by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Rust, Roses, and a Little Static” (Speakeasy vibes) – Floral Gramophone, v.4
Note: Please imagine Tom Waits hunched over a decrepit upright piano; the room is smoky and beer infused; the crowd is long passed drunk and their raucous chatter adds a background sound to the music, like a room full of snores. There’s a flower in the ditch by the rail yard fence,wearin’ a horn for … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Rust, Roses, and a Little Static” (Speakeasy vibes) – Floral Gramophone, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare’s most unsettling and intellectually provocative plays: a drama that begins in the high language of heroic love and war, then steadily strips both ideals of their glamour until they seem almost absurd. Set during the Trojan War, the play refuses the emotional consolations we often expect from Shakespeare. … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Field Notes for a Quiet Miracle” – Floral Gramophone, v.3
Out in the field,there’s a flower that looks like a gramophone horn. And honestly, it stops you. It opens like it knows somethingyou forgot to remember.Like sound can become shape.Like beauty can still surprise you. It does not shout.It just stands therepulling the whole field into its orbit,quiet as breath,bright as a thought you almost … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Field Notes for a Quiet Miracle” – Floral Gramophone, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King Edward III by Shakespeare
The authorship of King Edward III has long lingered in the penumbra of the Shakespearean canon—half-shadow, half-illumination—yet to read it attentively is to feel, unmistakably, the pulse of a mind that would come to define the architecture of English drama. Whether wholly or partially the work of William Shakespeare, the play offers a compelling meditation … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King Edward III by Shakespeare
T.A.E.’s Book Review – You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
Jan Sincero’s You Are a Badass arrives with the brash confidence of a pep talk, but beneath its neon bravado lies a surprisingly revealing study of self-fashioning in late-capitalist self-help culture. The book’s central argument is simple enough to state and difficult enough to practice: the greatest obstacle to a transformed life is not the … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
Revisionist Poetry – “The Gramophone Bloom” – Floral Gramophone, v.2
In the field, a flower blooms in perfect form,Curved like the horn of an old gramophone.Its petals open, note by note,Unfolding a soft, impossible song. It seems to send out colour you can hear,A quiet music threading through the air.It lifts the eye, then lingers in the mind,As if sound itself had learned to flower … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Gramophone Bloom” – Floral Gramophone, v.2
The New Renaissance Mindset 