Culture

Clover or abandonware?

Real Curses

Α stipend of consciousness.

Accountancy

'A fragile person with a floating consciousness. There are many of these.'

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That the poem refutes the longing to redeem it.
 

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That poetry is to imagine unenforceable principles.

Propinquities

• Its intimacy is unattributed.
• It's intimacy that is unattributed.
• Its intimacy is that it is unattributed.

On the Mother's Side

Knowing a quiet root, the mother refutes the profane with a sidewise glance.

 

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"Mothers are like that" – always unattributed, but only occasionally in scare quotes.

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A bifocal faith: I believe you, so long as you are what you are.

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That the total poetry is inevitably disciplinary.

Careers

Fictions speciate too, to displace and supplant where the mind will not behold an ecosystem.

Like Andrade's hummingbird, a "flying prism", displaced in turns by the mall rat. As accompanists, there's still here the off-crust of our musical world. Then the invention takes root – the mall rat first a soprano, then eventually a director.

On Dancing

Be confident and glad.

Don't live as if you have a face of rotten teeth.