Basket low, strap whispering against my hip, I slip beneath the green roof—a cathedral of leaves where rain still talks in small, bright beads.The earth smells of old rain and folded paper: dark, readable grammar.I follow the thin language of trails — snail silver, deer scat, a mole's ridge —and there: a crown of ochre … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Fungal Bounty, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
At first glance Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them wears the comfortable disguise of a familiar schoolroom text: a slim compendium of creatures, their habitats, and their hazard ratings, presented as a textbook used within the fictional world of Harry Potter. Read more carefully, however, and Rowling’s faux-field guide becomes a clever literary performance … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Fungal Bounty, v.2
Through the tangled undergrowth and damp earth,basket hooked on my forearm, I edge into the moss.Caps—amber, honey-laced, and bell-white—peek through leaf-sheen,each a coin half-buried in the forest’s palms. I step slow, nails tasting soil, watching for a tell:a curl of snail-silver, the pale dust of spores, a stem bruised blue.Poison hides in mimicry—painted red, a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Fungal Bounty, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows performs the double task required of a concluding volume in an epic sequence: it must both resolve a sprawling plot and transmute the series’ earlier motifs into a final grammar of meaning. In this seventh book, Rowling moves decisively away from episodic schoolroom adventures into a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Blowing Away, v.3
The dandelion keeps time with the wind —a bright clock with its hands undone,a paper moon that peels itself apart:each seed a tiny bell, a hush that falls. They lift like hushes in a narrow sky,parachutes stitched of down and air,spinning away from the hollowed crownto write new margins on the field below. What remains … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Blowing Away, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling’s sixth instalment in the Harry Potter sequence is the book in which the series sheds most of its juvenile skin and begins to operate, with near-full force, as a novel about knowledge, culpability, and the ethical weight of memory. Half-Blood Prince is not merely darker in tone; it is structurally and thematically preoccupied … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Blowing Away, v.2
The dandelion — a yellow clock wound down,a pale globe drifting on the wind.Its seeds, small hushes with parachutes,spin off on invisible ropes. The bloom has emptied; gold loosened into air,a lace of stems in autumn’s thin light.Yet in that unbuttoning it plants insistence —a promise of soft landings, of green. We watch the white … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Blowing Away, v.2
Revisionist Poetry – Avian Essence, v.3. (a lyrical reimagining)
Dried pods cradle the late light,milkweed moons pinned to brittle twigs,paper lungs folded against the throatof a sky that holds its breath. Morning comes in a hush of wings —or perhaps it comes as patience breaking,a single seam unzipping: crack,the soft percussion of seed and silk. Then a small weather rises, a tremorof white, a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Avian Essence, v.3. (a lyrical reimagining)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
By the fifth book Rowling performs a deliberate tonal swerve: Order of the Phoenix is not merely a continuation of the magical-adventure arc begun in Philosopher’s Stone but the moment when the series grows up, and asks of its readers something harder than puzzles and schoolboy heroics. Structurally the novel is a hinge — bulkier, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Avian Essence, v.2
Dried milkweed hangheavy on brittle branches,pods held like closed handsagainst a hush of sky. Then a seam gives — papery crack,a scatter: white skeins lift,not birds yet, but small weather,each seed a flake of wing. The twigs empty their maps;air fills with soft insistence.What looked like husk becomes migration,a sudden translation of the ordinary. Leave … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Avian Essence, v.2
The New Renaissance Mindset 