Tag: community

  • Communes — from 58 poems written at 29

    Communes — from 58 poems written at 29

    The phone flings beeps, fingers respond By typing tamely, or the thumbs clanking I love you in animated Golden age .gifs or emojis Like knot-tying nubs that fumble. Half-hitches the harbor uses In the nightly fog. We never meant To replace our prose with power cords Or whisper with widgets. Where did the letters Get…

  • Lone Wolf Artist: On Bad Myths, Guilds, and Societies

    Lone Wolf Artist: On Bad Myths, Guilds, and Societies

    Some idiot along the way started lying to us. The lie was this: that genius, that true genial power, can only happen when some dude or dudette cordons themselves off from society to spend the next decade crafting his masterpiece. Lone wolf artists. It has many sources, frankly, but the lion’s share of the burden of the lone wolf artist…