Beyond the paling posts the daylight bleeds to bone—a pallid sky that keeps its tongue withdrawn.Fences stand like sentries in a ruined dream,their teeth of iron tasting salt and rot.Moonlight goes thin as linen over fields;the world beyond is muffled, worn to ash. These rails remember rain as rust remembers hands,and paint peels like skin … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Where the Fences Learn Our Names” – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1 is one of Shakespeare’s richest explorations of power, performance, and identity. At once a political chronicle and a coming-of-age drama, the play stages a kingdom in disorder while asking a deeper question: what does it mean to be fit for rule? Shakespeare answers not with simple heroism, but with ambiguity, irony, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.3
Slats hush the meadow’s colour—a palette scrubbed to ash.A lone scarf, saffron and loud,threads the wire like a stubborn note. Hands on wood that tastes of rain,fingers learn the map of gaps:the world beyond made thin as paper,made distant as a half-remembered song. We keep our small bright things close—the ribbon, the scarlet stone—and watch … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Richard II by Shakespeare
Richard II is one of the most hauntingly elegant of the history plays, not because it is driven by battlefield spectacle, but because it stages the collapse of kingship as an inward, almost ceremonial tragedy. The play is less interested in the mechanics of politics than in the fragile mystique that allows a king to … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Richard II by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.2
Beyond the slats the light has gone to grey:a sky that learned to forget its blues,meadows washed down to the pale of bone.Between the posts, a child’s kite drifts—a rag of yellow caught and made a flagof absence; the wind mends nothing. The fence breathes in old paint, in iron salt,tongues of rust tasting at … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King John by Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s King John is one of the most politically alert of his histories, and also one of the most unsettling. It is a play haunted by uncertainty: uncertain inheritance, uncertain law, uncertain loyalty, uncertain conscience. Unlike the grand sweep of Richard II or Henry V, where kingship can still seem to carry a visible aura, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King John by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Puff Brigade” – Ephemeral, v.4
Dandelion fluffs don tiny parachutes,tipping their hats to passing mailmen of air.They hold secret meetings above tire tracks,and whisper folded maps to tomorrow’s gardens. They squat in sidewalk freckles, pint-size anarchists,pop golden heads like pocket-lanterns at dawn.A child steals one, makes a wish—science applauds—while a seed buys a cheerful one-way ticket. Summer sneezes, a sudden … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Puff Brigade” – Ephemeral, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen is one of Shakespeare’s strangest late plays: a collaboration with John Fletcher, drawn from Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale,” and first printed in 1634, though it was likely performed earlier, around 1613–1614. That layered ancestry matters, because the play feels like a work in permanent translation—medieval story recast as Jacobean drama, courtly … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Gutter Lessons” – Ephemeral, v.3
fluff on a gust —a child's laugh, a crack in pavement,Taraxacum staking a claim. gold pinwheels, two days of sun,then a wind that writes the story thin.seeds hitch rides on shoe and storm,a small diaspora of stubborn hope. Here the moral: watch the crumbthat becomes a map.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is one of Shakespeare’s most unusual and affecting romances: a play that feels deliberately broken apart so that it can be mended before our eyes. Its power does not lie in dramatic polish or tight structure. It lies in motion—storm-tossed, fragmented, and miraculous motion—through loss, exile, silence, and recovery. What emerges … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Shakespeare
The New Renaissance Mindset 