Dust falls like slow snow in my studio,landing on bristles, on the rim of a jar,on the carved lip of a cup that was never finished.Tools lie in driftwood piles: knives, ribs, wire,each one a fossil of a future I keep. I imagine soapstone singing under the blade,a thin, bright note—paper shavings at my feet—or … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Inventory of Maybe: Carver’s Kit, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling’s name on a spine still summons an array of readerly habits: eager return to a familiar lexicon of enchantments, a hunger for mythic scaffolding, and a readiness to re-enter a world where moral categories are usually luminous and legible. The published Complete Screenplay for The Secrets of Dumbledore, co-credited to screenwriter Steve … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Promises in the Dust: Carver’s Kit, v.2
In the dusty corner of my studioa mountain of tools keeps vigil —brushes crusted like dried-up combs,a stack of canvases breathing dust.Soapstone waits, cool as a riverbone;clay sits in its bowl, damp and patient. My chest lifts when I imagine the first cut,the knife opening a soft, secret grain,fingers shaping, pressing, answering.I collect these things … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Promises in the Dust: Carver’s Kit, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling’s The Crimes of Grindelwald is an odd chimera: part myth-making, part franchise machinery, and part apologue about power, identity, and the price of certainty. Read as a literary object rather than as a piece of cinematic tie-in, the screenplay invites a distinct kind of scrutiny — one that must account for its hybrid … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Fungal Bounty, v.3
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
The New Renaissance Mindset 