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Yellowjacket Kid
We went around the cabin and each kid had to say something about himself. Uttie, our counselor, talked about the camp and meals and bedtime and everything. He had to answer a lot of questions because, even though our parents had only just left, already a kid had got hurt in a really awful way.…
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Legacy
Adam stretches his arm The tip of his finger, Few inches shy of the Immortal— Mirroring the painter and his brush Reaching for the ceiling chapel Praying for resurrection— Or was it the other way around? Did Michelangelo intend to show An old God, aided by angles, Bent on reaching progeny, Reincarnation,…
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The Alchemy of Advice
For Rhina E That poem that you have to write will make you write it, you told us, eventually. Before it even is, it makes us ache inside? Is that the way it gets to be, like other fruits of creativity? As seeds spawn trees, so, for the simple sake of what is not, one…
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For All One Knows
A man sees an old woman up ahead of him on the side of a desolate path. He is surprised to come across her, as he hasn’t seen anyone for days. By the looks of it, neither has she. She is leaning up against a tree, in the small midday shade, and even though she…
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The Bogeyman & Writer’s Block
Today I received an email newsletter entitled, “Are you SCARED to make Art?” (It’s from People I’ve Loved, makers of unique prints, paper goods, blankets, and the like. Check them out!) The body of the email contained really sensitive, genuine content about creative difficulty amidst depression. But I couldn’t shirk the joke of the subject…
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Bountiful Colors Nature’s Eye Candy (II)
Timothy F. Phillips presents five paintings in acrylic on canvas. For a look at the other works in this series, check out “Bountiful Colors Nature’s Eye Candy.”
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Bountiful Colors Nature’s Eye Candy
Timothy F. Phillips presents five paintings in acrylic on canvas.
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A DIY Project
I pulled into the dark lot and parked along the brick wall of the once abandoned building that I now know as The Woolen Mills. On previous occasions, I had come to The Woolen Mills listening room for a few DIY shows. Do-it-yourself (DIY) shows are musical events that take place in spaces that are…
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The Chinese Lessons
People told me that my daughter was fluent in Chinese, but before we went to Beijing together I used to have to take their word for it. She had been in a Mandarin immersion program since she was three years old, but since I didn’t speak Mandarin myself, I had to be satisfied with the…
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Split Apart
Ash shall mark my forehead; my lips shall feast upon stone— Lest fragments of breath fill me up; I’ll be cold and as dusty as bone. Let wine wet my forehead, let scales seal my eyes, let my hair be tangled in name— Let life bring me verses of hearts recognized; ignited twin spirits of…
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Theo-Poetics – A Theory of the Divine
“Words are flying out like Endless rain into a paper cupThey slither while they passThey slip away across the universePools of sorrow waves of joyare drifting through my open mindPossessing and caressing me.” The Beatles
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To Moor in Greenness of Early May
You feel gratitude for taking a walk in the meadow, like a brown bee drifting, to shun the fragrance of 5G networks— for the grass blades’ tenderness and caring. For the chance to fall with pale pink petals, lie in the clearing like a drunken cork, lie there long enough that, from your nostrils, some…