Dandelion fluffs don tiny parachutes,tipping their hats to passing mailmen of air.They hold secret meetings above tire tracks,and whisper folded maps to tomorrow’s gardens. They squat in sidewalk freckles, pint-size anarchists,pop golden heads like pocket-lanterns at dawn.A child steals one, makes a wish—science applauds—while a seed buys a cheerful one-way ticket. Summer sneezes, a sudden … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Puff Brigade” – Ephemeral, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen is one of Shakespeare’s strangest late plays: a collaboration with John Fletcher, drawn from Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale,” and first printed in 1634, though it was likely performed earlier, around 1613–1614. That layered ancestry matters, because the play feels like a work in permanent translation—medieval story recast as Jacobean drama, courtly … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Gutter Lessons” – Ephemeral, v.3
fluff on a gust —a child's laugh, a crack in pavement,Taraxacum staking a claim. gold pinwheels, two days of sun,then a wind that writes the story thin.seeds hitch rides on shoe and storm,a small diaspora of stubborn hope. Here the moral: watch the crumbthat becomes a map.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is one of Shakespeare’s most unusual and affecting romances: a play that feels deliberately broken apart so that it can be mended before our eyes. Its power does not lie in dramatic polish or tight structure. It lies in motion—storm-tossed, fragmented, and miraculous motion—through loss, exile, silence, and recovery. What emerges … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Taraxacum Census” – Ephemeral, v.2
Dandelion fluffs dance on the wind,brief as a held breath, scattering secretsto their wild kin — the nation of Taraxacum.They birth themselves in the hairline breaksof sidewalks, in the gutters of our days,unfazed by the concrete worlds we build. Golden cups open like small beacons;a child’s palm cupped, a commuter’s step— quiet proofs that life … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Taraxacum Census” – Ephemeral, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor is often treated as a lightweight comedy, a cheerful outlier among his more psychologically layered and poetically elevated plays. Yet that judgment undersells its accomplishment. Beneath its brisk plotting, domestic mischief, and antic disguises lies a tightly observed satire of class pretension, masculine vanity, and social performance. The play … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Cathedral of Roots” – Dragon Head, v.3
I wander through a parliament of trunks—their leaves exchanging secret currencies of light.The path is a shroud: a carpet of upturned roots,brown and papery as fossilized sails. One root reveals itself like a counted vertebra,curved and patient as a memory. I kneel—the earth remembers a throat, a jaw—not with facts but with the hollow of … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Cathedral of Roots” – Dragon Head, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit is best read not as a conventional nature book, but as a work of ecological devotion. The publisher frames it as a meditation on how “science, nature, and spirit” meet, and that is exactly its achievement: Haupt refuses the old split between … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Revisionist Poetry – “Afterheat” – Dragon Head, v.2
I wander through the woods; unfamiliar trunkstilt their whispered councils overhead—leaves gossip of buried light, of what the dark keeps.Beneath my feet a tangle: upturned, rotting roots,someone's ribcage turned to earth. Deeper, my thoughts unmoor. One peeled rootbends like a dragon's rib, its spine still mappedin the soil's slow ridges. I don't name the beast—I … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Afterheat” – Dragon Head, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Reading the Sonnets is less like opening a single book than stepping into a long, intimate chamber of rhetorical experiments in which a brilliant mind tries on voices, arguments, and selves until language itself is refashioned. This sequence is not merely an anthology of pretty poems; it is a sustained performance of thought about love, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The New Renaissance Mindset 