In late harvest light, a wooden crate tips—a river of nobbled gourds pooling on straw:squat globes, long-necked lanterns, sun-browned mapsmottled with ochre, chartreuse, and bruise. Each one a small, knotted country — scoredby sun and rain, ribbed with winter’s memory,its pockmarks and scars the kind of languagethat names droughts and late frosts without a shout. … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Autumn’s Fruit, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone performs a curious double task: it reanimates familiar strands of the British children’s-book tradition (the orphaned schoolboy, the boarding school adventure, the fairy-tale quest) while announcing, with surprising economy, the existence of a fully imagined parallel moral universe. Read as a discrete text rather than merely the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Art is Everywhere, v.3
In the cluttered hush of the studiothe inventory of things begins to list itself:a cracked crate, a sagging shelf, a rolled canvasbreathing like folded skin in the corner. A canvas draped over a chair, a clay hand in a jar,colours spattered down the floorboards like small suns.Each piece carries the humidity of a night—the tremor … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Art is Everywhere, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Shopkeeper’s Home: The World’s Best Independent Retailers and Their Stylish Homes by Caroline Rowland
Caroline Rowland’s The Shopkeeper’s Home: The World’s Best Independent Retailers and Their Stylish Homes reads at first like a beautifully curated cabinet of curiosities — a procession of storefronts and private interiors that insist, by virtue of their arrangement and photography, on a particular kind of attention. But read more closely, and Rowland’s book does … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Shopkeeper’s Home: The World’s Best Independent Retailers and Their Stylish Homes by Caroline Rowland
Revisionist Poetry. – Art is Everywhere, v.2
In the cluttered hush of my studioa sheet of canvas breathes like folded skin.Turpentine fogs the window; a plaster handleans against a crate stamped LAST SUMMER. One painting is a bruise of ultramarine—another, a grin of ochre stuck on burlap.I price them in small currencies: time, regret, glue.Sell one and the throat hollows; keep all … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry. – Art is Everywhere, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (with a bonus at the end: Cyrano’s “A Nose…” monologue)
Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac is at once a theatrical confection and a sharply worked tragedy of language. Written for the theatre — and written to be heard — the play glories in the sound of words: the quick thrusts of wit, the rolled cadence of heroic verse, the extravagant pyrotechnics of rhetoric. Yet beneath … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (with a bonus at the end: Cyrano’s “A Nose…” monologue)
Revisionist Poetry – Two of Us (a.k.a. Angered Conversants, v.3)
We are the things the sea forgot —salt-sanded, hollow where a heart once ran.They come with voices like fast knives,bragging the bright heat of being heard. We remember other storms: slow presses,the river’s grammar of rubbing and giving.Barnacles hang like old punctuation;sun has written its absent names along our ribs. You pound the air with … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Two of Us (a.k.a. Angered Conversants, v.3)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross
Clifford Ross’s The World of Edward Gorey is less a conventional monograph than an act of tasteful conjuration: a careful, lovingly lit cabinet that sets an uncanny miniature theatre at the center of view. Ross treats Gorey not simply as an illustrator who doodled at the margins of Victorian melodrama, but as a singular authorial … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross
Revisionist Poetry – Angered Conversants, v.2
Wind knifes the shore and keeps its rude counsel;two salt-bleached lengths lie like old bones—one half-buried, the other split and cuppedas if to hold what the tide forgot. They bear the maps of storms: dark rings, sun-bleached grain,a barnacled thumb where some net once caught.Around them voices spool — hot, bright, and short —the human … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Angered Conversants, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Irma S. Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking is an unlikely classic: at once a pragmatic manual, a conversational memoir, and — when read closely — a vernacular text that helped shape twentieth-century American domestic culture. First self-published in 1931 as a modest compilation of tested recipes and “casual culinary chat,” the book rapidly left the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
The New Renaissance Mindset 