Under a single bulb the studio breathes —clay cool as river-mud, the smell of earth and salt.My fingers sink and pull and fold; the wheel answers,a low, slow song that keeps time with the heart. I coax a mouth from the belly of the lump,pull a shoulder, cup a hollow for rain.The clay sings back … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Clay Experiments, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Written by Shirley Jackson, this novel is less a sequence of jump-scares than a sustained experiment in atmosphere, point of view, and the politics of domestic fear. Jackson's masterpiece refuses the tidy mechanics of conventional Gothic; instead it anatomizes the uneasy overlap between mind, architecture, and social expectation. The result is a book that reads … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Revisionist Poetry – Clay Experiments, v.2
In the low light of the studiomy hands knead wet clay — slow, patient, greedy.I press, fold: a thumb makes a hollow,a palm smooths a shoulder into being. The clay remembers touch, remembers rhythm;it accepts and resists, yielding its weight.I carve a furrow, map a ridge, press a thumbprint —small geographies of whatever I am. … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Clay Experiments, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book-Play Review – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
Few contemporary literary phenomena invite as fierce and persistent a blend of affection and suspicion as the continuation of a beloved series. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is both an answer to that appetite and a provocation: not a conventional “next book” but a stage play whose text functions as a script, a dramatized … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book-Play Review – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
Revisionist Poetry – Inventory of Maybe: Carver’s Kit, v.3
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
The New Renaissance Mindset 