By the river, I stack stonesbecause nothing here stays putand I want to make somethingthat knows that. The water moves.The sun warms my neck.My hands learn the shape of each rockbefore I place it where it might hold. A tower rises.It wobbles.It survives. That is enough for me:this small, unstable proofthat beauty can liveinside collapse.
Revisionist Poetry – “The Quiet Architecture of Passing” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.3
Beside the river I make my little cathedralsfrom broken stones and patient hands,not to defeat time,but to hear it breathe. The current slides near mewith its soft, unanswering wisdom,while I choose each stone by touch,its cool weight, its scars, its fit. Sunlight settles on my back.The bank is hushed.I bend, I lift, I balance,and for … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Quiet Architecture of Passing” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.3
Revisionist Poetry – “River of Balancing Things” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.2
Along the riverbank I wander,gathering stones for my brittle towers,not for anything lasting,only for the brief astonishment of balance. The river keeps its own counsel,moving softly past my knees,as I turn each stone in my palms,feeling weight, grain, coldness, edge. The sun warms my shoulders.I crouch. I try again.One rock. Then another.A shape begins to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “River of Balancing Things” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.2
Revisionist Poetry – “Your Little Hand in Mine” – For the Love of My Child, v.4
Note: I tried to reimagine this one as a story a parent could read to their young child. I love to hold your hand,so tiny, soft, and warm.You smile at me, and suddenlythe whole wide world feels kind. We look at birds and flowers,at puddles, bugs, and stars,and every little thing we seeis lovely just … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Your Little Hand in Mine” – For the Love of My Child, v.4
Revisionist Poetry – “Held by Wonder” – For the Love of My Child, v.2
My life has known no greater joythan this:my child in my arms,her tiny hand seeking mine,her face lit with astonishment. She teaches me the worldby seeing it first.In her gaze, even the ordinarybecomes radiant—a leaf, a shadow, a laugh,the turning of a day. Her joy is a living thing,bright and unguarded.When she smiles,something in me … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Held by Wonder” – For the Love of My Child, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Cymbeline by Shakespeare
Cymlbeline is one of Shakespeare’s most fascinating late plays because it refuses to behave like any one thing for very long. It begins in the register of political drama, slides into domestic intrigue, mutates into romance, and finally arrives at a kind of miraculous reconciliation that can feel both deeply moving and slightly unbelievable. That … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Cymbeline by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “The River’s Undead Garden” – Rooted Flotsam, v.3
At the river’s lowered skin,the bank lies exposed like a wound,and the blackened roots reach outas if to remember the bodythat once fed them. Branches claw from ruined trunks,grafting themselves to rot,to splinter, to silence,as though decay were onlyanother name for hunger. Along the mud,seed and thorn and ruingather in shivering patches—a fever of grasses,a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The River’s Undead Garden” – Rooted Flotsam, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Timon of Athens by Shakespeare
Timon of Athens is one of this playwright’s most unsettling experiments: a play about generosity that curdles into misanthropy, a tragedy in which money is not merely a practical concern but the force that reorganizes affection, language, and identity itself. It is also a drama of glaring imbalance. The first half glitters with social performance … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Timon of Athens by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Tidebound Renewal” – Rooted Flotsam, v.2
At the river’s low-breathed edge,branches stir again,grafting themselves to the hush of dying trunks,as if the tide, in withdrawing,had left a secret pulse behind. Seeds, once scattered and nearly forgotten,rise as stubborn grassesthat stipple the groundaround these living pillars—small green vowswritten in the mud. The wind moves throughwith its pale freight of sand and pollen,and … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Tidebound Renewal” – Rooted Flotsam, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Coriolanus by Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is one of his bleakest political tragedies: a play that strips public life down to appetite, humiliation, and force. Unlike the more expansive moral worlds of Hamlet or King Lear, this drama is severe, almost stark in its anatomy of civic life. It asks a brutal question: what happens when a warrior trained … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Coriolanus by Shakespeare
The New Renaissance Mindset 