The calendar above the sink is a slow abrasion—dates rubbed down to the pale paper of patience.A stack of unsent postcards fans like wounded birds;the stamp-side of hope is blank. Night folds into night and leaves a note: no one came.Footsteps become a rumour on the other side of the wall.The phone sleeps face-down like … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Calendar’s Teeth”: On the Cruelty of Waiting – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.6
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare sets a peculiarly cerebral trap for his audience in Love’s Labour’s Lost: a courtly experiment in renunciation and study that is immediately confounded by the comic contagion of love. The play reads like a satire of pedantry and Petrarchan affectation, and its pleasures come less from plotful surprise than from the verbal inventiveness and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Root That Knows the Stone”: On the Stubbornness of Making – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.5
The basement keeps its single bulb—olive and patient.He sands the edge of a face until the grain sings.A jar of brushes stands like sentries, stiff with dried oil;a moth rehearses the same, small circle around the light. He paints the same jaw three nights in a row,correcting an insistence that will not be quiet.Impostor comes … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Root That Knows the Stone”: On the Stubbornness of Making – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.5
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s briskest and most farcical early play, The Comedy of Errors stages a combustible mixture of slapstick, classical plot-mechanics, and surprisingly tender melancholia. On its surface the play is a tight mechanical farce — two sets of identical twins, mistaken identities, beatings, arrests, and a sequence of escalating misunderstandings — but beneath that machinery Shakespeare … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Window Cracked” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.4
Basement lamp. One face in paint.Impostor at the windowsill with cold palms.He signs the corner and leaves the window cracked—an invitation like a breath into the street.Tonight, a moth maps the lamplight; tomorrow, footsteps might follow.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As You Like It by William Shakespeare
As You Like It is, at once, one of Shakespeare’s most winsome comedies and one of his most philosophically porous. The play stages a collision between court and wood, artifice and simplicity, and—most memorably—between performance and identity. Its pleasures are theatrical (wit, disguise, comic reversals) but its imaginative reach is pastoral and reflective: the Forest … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Basement Sun” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.3
Basement: damp breath of plaster and turpentine.A lamp pools like a small sun over a half-face—a mouth not yet finished, a jaw undecided.He works until the light invents patience. There’s a calendar pinned above the sink,the months crossed out with cigarette ash.Ideas gather in a cardboard box —old ticket stubs, a hand-scrawled compliment, a smear … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Basement Sun” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's late play is at once a fairy-tale romance, a metaphysical meditation on art and illusion, and one of his most unsettling examinations of power and possession. Its small cast and island setting concentrate moral conflicts into a tight theatrical laboratory: Prospero’s rulership through books and spirits; Ariel’s airy service; Caliban’s earthy resistance; and the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “The Locksmith’s Lamp” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.2
In the basement’s single bulb—olive light—He oils a stubborn canvas till it hums;A moth keeps time against the lampshade’s white,His brush translates the hush of absent drums. He paints a woman who will never leave,A mouth half-open, caught between a song;The floorboards keep each night’s small, private grieve,A stack of postcards—unsent proofs of wrong. Impostor … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Locksmith’s Lamp” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s comic fantasia remains, more than four centuries after its first performances, a small universe where love, language, and theatricality chase one another in circles until witty chaos becomes a kind of logic. In this review I treat the play both as a tightly engineered comic machine and as an example of poetic imagination that … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The New Renaissance Mindset 