Basement lamp. One face in paint.Impostor at the windowsill with cold palms.He signs the corner and leaves the window cracked—an invitation like a breath into the street.Tonight, a moth maps the lamplight; tomorrow, footsteps might follow.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As You Like It by William Shakespeare
As You Like It is, at once, one of Shakespeare’s most winsome comedies and one of his most philosophically porous. The play stages a collision between court and wood, artifice and simplicity, and—most memorably—between performance and identity. Its pleasures are theatrical (wit, disguise, comic reversals) but its imaginative reach is pastoral and reflective: the Forest … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Basement Sun” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.3
Basement: damp breath of plaster and turpentine.A lamp pools like a small sun over a half-face—a mouth not yet finished, a jaw undecided.He works until the light invents patience. There’s a calendar pinned above the sink,the months crossed out with cigarette ash.Ideas gather in a cardboard box —old ticket stubs, a hand-scrawled compliment, a smear … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Basement Sun” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's late play is at once a fairy-tale romance, a metaphysical meditation on art and illusion, and one of his most unsettling examinations of power and possession. Its small cast and island setting concentrate moral conflicts into a tight theatrical laboratory: Prospero’s rulership through books and spirits; Ariel’s airy service; Caliban’s earthy resistance; and the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “The Locksmith’s Lamp” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.2
In the basement’s single bulb—olive light—He oils a stubborn canvas till it hums;A moth keeps time against the lampshade’s white,His brush translates the hush of absent drums. He paints a woman who will never leave,A mouth half-open, caught between a song;The floorboards keep each night’s small, private grieve,A stack of postcards—unsent proofs of wrong. Impostor … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Locksmith’s Lamp” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s comic fantasia remains, more than four centuries after its first performances, a small universe where love, language, and theatricality chase one another in circles until witty chaos becomes a kind of logic. In this review I treat the play both as a tightly engineered comic machine and as an example of poetic imagination that … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Hymn of the Heap” – Beautiful Detritus, v.4 (Dylanesque)
Winter loosens its grip on the gate,lets the snow slide off like a bad alibi.The ground coughs up its old confessions—knotted string, a split glove, last year’s lie. There’s a tangle of jute in the belly of the bed,leaf bones rattling their thin, dry prayer,a rusted hook humming to the worms,like it still remembers holding … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Hymn of the Heap” – Beautiful Detritus, v.4 (Dylanesque)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew is one of those plays that refuses the neat categories critics try to pin on it: at once a farce, a satire of social performance, and an uncomfortable meditation on marriage and power. The play’s comic machinery is brilliant — quick-paced plotting, disguise and mistaken identity, witty repartee — but … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “The Garden’s Leftovers” – Beautiful Detritus, v.3 (a touch more wabi-sabi)
When thaw begins, the garden exhales—thin ice lifting from the hollow of the beds.Beneath: torn burlap, rust-kissed wire, one pale glovegone to the soft apprenticeship of soil. These are the beautiful terms of loss:string looped like an old promise, leaf veins like maps.Frost has taught everything how to fracture well.Time stitches rag to root; the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Garden’s Leftovers” – Beautiful Detritus, v.3 (a touch more wabi-sabi)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s work here reads like a distilled drama of human contradiction: love and violence, chance and design, speech that soars and action that wounds. This play—set in Verona—remains instructive not because it tells us something entirely new about passion, but because it shows, with rare intensity and compression, how quickly language can conjure a world … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The New Renaissance Mindset 