The night splits open like a mouth with broken teeth,a sound that tastes of rust and stale whiskey.Somebody spits a laugh down the gutter —it bounces off wet brick and comes back hungry. I lift my chin. The moon hangs there, swollen,a jaundiced coin stuck to the ribs of bare trees,one watery eye watching for … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Ghost Moon, v.3 – Grime & Grotesque
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Othello by William Shakespeare
The play of jealousy, race, and rhetorical violence Few of Shakespeare’s plays put language itself on trial as insistently as this one. At its centre is a private catastrophe writ large: a great man undone not by battlefield enemy but by a smaller, domestic poison—suspicion seeding itself until it becomes murderous. The drama’s compact architecture … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Othello by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Ghost Moon, v.2
A sound shatters the moonlit quiet —one thin cry that splits the hush,makes the chest lift, makes eyes climb upwardto the ghost-moon pinned between bare branches. It hangs like a deliberate coin, pale and small,hovering where twig-silhouettes stitch the sky;a patient light that pulls the throat tight,that leaves the mouth empty and the pulse loud. … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Ghost Moon, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Hamlet by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s tragedy remains less a fixed object than a conversation partner—restless, self-aware, inexorably theatrical. This review reads the play as a study in moral irresolution: how language, performance, and self-reflection combine to dramatize the slow collapse of an intelligent mind caught between thought and action. Language and interiorityShakespeare gives thought a stage. The play’s … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Creepy Island, v.3 – A Gothic Alternative
The river calcifies at dusk, slow as bone;the island rises—coal against coal—its roots gone to rumour.A willow’s fingers comb the surface; each stroke lifts a scrap of night. Fishermen splice their stories into knots and hang them on the fence:a shoe, a child's tin cup, a tooth—keepsakes or talismans, no one says.Lamp light from the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Creepy Island, v.3 – A Gothic Alternative
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry V by William Shakespeare
A Crown Forged in Language: Henry V and the Performance of Kingship Henry V occupies a fascinating hinge-point in Shakespeare’s history cycle: it completes the arc begun with Prince Hal’s riotous youth and stages his transformation into a king whose authority is built as much on rhetoric as on force. The play is often celebrated … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry V by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Creepy Island, v.2
Amid the river’s iron breatha black thumb pins the water—an islandso small the moon forgets to name it.A single rowboat keeps its back to shore,paint flaking like old combings of hair. At dusk, houses on the bank shut their windowsas if to hold in one last good secret.One dog barks once, then listens; the reeds … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Creepy Island, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is one of those rare picture books that functions simultaneously as a fable, a miniature psychological drama, and a radical experiment in economy — of line, of colour, and of words. On the surface it tells the simple story of a child’s temper and imaginative flight; beneath that … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Revisionist Poetry – “Satirical” – Discussions #2, v.4
Three polished opinions in a row, bronze-kissed for tourist photo ops:one is the orator—always on, voice sold separately—one is the diplomat—measured, market-tested, certified non-offensive—and one is the “silent partner,” trademarked for dramatic effect. Plaque reads: “We represent nuance. Buy a postcard.”First statue throws headlines like confetti: “Vote for clarity!”Second replies with buffered clauses: “Let’s convene … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Satirical” – Discussions #2, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick's hybrid "novel in words and pictures" re-conceives narrative pacing by treating images as scene — and sometimes sequence — rather than mere illustration. The reader moves through long stretches in which single sentences act like inter-titles while spreads of meticulously rendered, black-and-white images perform the work of action, pause, and revelation. This formal … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The New Renaissance Mindset 