Glass sky. Black stone.Mist cools the temple of shops.Bronze bodies arrested mid-pray, mid-fall —light like a sudden coin. We sit, hush-banked by water,sip what is called coffee, hold our breath.The divers keep falling; the sound keeps counting us out.For a moment, the mall forgets itself.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure resists tidy classification. Cast as a “comedy” in early quartos yet steeped in moral unease and judicial severity, it belongs to that uneasy middle ground—what later critics call a problem play—where questions of law, mercy, desire, and hypocrisy refuse easy resolution. Shakespeare stages a civic experiment: the Duke of Vienna deputizes Angelo … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “False Oasis” – Diving Through the Grey, v.3
Under glass ceilings and neon light the crowd arranges itself,priced shoes stepping past palms potted into ordered sorrow.They built a rain for sale: a waterfall in a shopping cathedral,spray recirculated like a promise on a loop. Bronze divers, lacquered and preordained, tumble toward a tiled mouth;they never break the surface—only the illusion does.The water’s voice … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “False Oasis” – Diving Through the Grey, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra refuses neat categorization: part historical chronicle, part lyric tragedy, wholly an enactment of divided selves. The play stages an epic collision — Rome’s brittle, administrative world against Egypt’s lush, sensuous one — and interrogates what remains of identity, honour, and love when political necessity demands their sacrifice. In what follows I … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Interior Dive” – Diving Through the Grey, v.2
Amid the throng at the Dubai Mall, black marble and light,a planted fog hangs like a pause.Here, mist cools the air; the fall of water takes the loudness with it—a steady, engineered rain. Sculpted figures hold forever at the lip:muscles taut, arms split like wings; they are mid-motion made silent.Light wires through them — bronze … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Interior Dive” – Diving Through the Grey, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s late romance is an audacious exercise in tonal sleight-of-hand. The Winter’s Tale begins in the claustrophobic pressure-cooker of courtly jealousy and ends in an almost miraculous unclenching — a movement from accusation to amends, from desperate possession to a form of theatrical mercy. The play resists tidy categorization: it is at once a domestic … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Painted Doorways”: On the Dream of an Audience – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.7
He paints as if rooms might open—doorways in oil—a skyline of possible faces leaning toward the canvas.He pins a postcard on the wall: To whoever will look first.The moth rehearses applause against the lampshade. He imagines a woman with a coat that never quite matches the weather,a child who counts brushstrokes like a secret.Strangers arrange … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Painted Doorways”: On the Dream of an Audience – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.7
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s early comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona reads—unequivocally—as the work of a dramatist still learning the ropes, and yet it contains moments of surprising moral complexity and radiant lyricism that repay careful attention. The play’s structural unevenness (rapid tonal shifts from high romance to broad slapstick, and sudden moral reversals) has long made it … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “The Calendar’s Teeth”: On the Cruelty of Waiting – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.6
The calendar above the sink is a slow abrasion—dates rubbed down to the pale paper of patience.A stack of unsent postcards fans like wounded birds;the stamp-side of hope is blank. Night folds into night and leaves a note: no one came.Footsteps become a rumour on the other side of the wall.The phone sleeps face-down like … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Calendar’s Teeth”: On the Cruelty of Waiting – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.6
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare sets a peculiarly cerebral trap for his audience in Love’s Labour’s Lost: a courtly experiment in renunciation and study that is immediately confounded by the comic contagion of love. The play reads like a satire of pedantry and Petrarchan affectation, and its pleasures come less from plotful surprise than from the verbal inventiveness and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
The New Renaissance Mindset 