I wander through the woods; unfamiliar trunkstilt their whispered councils overhead—leaves gossip of buried light, of what the dark keeps.Beneath my feet a tangle: upturned, rotting roots,someone's ribcage turned to earth. Deeper, my thoughts unmoor. One peeled rootbends like a dragon's rib, its spine still mappedin the soil's slow ridges. I don't name the beast—I … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Afterheat” – Dragon Head, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Reading the Sonnets is less like opening a single book than stepping into a long, intimate chamber of rhetorical experiments in which a brilliant mind tries on voices, arguments, and selves until language itself is refashioned. This sequence is not merely an anthology of pretty poems; it is a sustained performance of thought about love, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Good Morning ” – Downward Glance, v.3
There’s a whole field of sunflowers doing the usual —faces up, sun-chasing, like they all agreed on the plan.But you? You tilt your head down like you’re shy or thinking. I walk closer. You don’t make a fuss; you just open,petals folding back like pages, the center humming a little light —not loud, just enough … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Good Morning ” – Downward Glance, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
There are comedies that simply make us laugh and comedies that quietly complicate our laughter until it tastes of something stranger. Twelfth Night belongs to the latter group: at once a carnival of language and a probing study of identity, desire, and social pretence. From the opening invocation — “If music be the food of … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Tilt” – Downward Glance, v.3
Rows of heads follow the morning like habit;one keeps its face lowered, a slow refusal.The stem bends at the knuckle as if remembering rain;petals close over the center like a folded letter. Light bleeds through in a thin, stubborn seam —as if the plant keeps a hidden lamp against the cold.Around it the field murmurs … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Tilt” – Downward Glance, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s early tragedy reads like a moral and theatrical experiment pushed to its bloodied extremes: brutal in action, often uneven in technique, but stubbornly alive in its capacity to shock and to provoke questions about law, family, and the theatrical appetite for spectacle. At face value the plot is simple—Titus, a war-hero and patriarch, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “The Lantern in the Field” – Downward Glance, v.2
In a sea of small suns that all turn east,one head tilts — a slow, private question.Its stem is a thin column of green, knuckled by wind;petals peel like paper, the disk a slow ember. I step closer. Light — not loud, but kept —moves through the hollow between petals,and for a moment the field … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Lantern in the Field” – Downward Glance, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s uneven, intriguing comedy reads like a tournament between two impulses: an impulse toward the consolations of romance and ceremony, and an equally insistent pull toward moral ambiguity and theatrical awkwardness. At face value the plot is simple—a physician’s daughter secures the cure of a sick king and is rewarded with the husband she desires—but … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Diving” – Diving Through the Grey, v.4
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
The New Renaissance Mindset 