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  • Eternal Mind

    Eternal Mind

    How far down does the sun gowhen the sun each day goes down?How did Earth select its speedfor the speed of its spinning ‘round?How did the stars find their placesof the endless places there were to find?These few questions and infinite morewere answered by the Eternal Mind. Featured Download: If you would like a resource…

  • Transformation

    Transformation

    I hide the Shaker postcard in the textbook, its speaker with her back to us. Imagine. Every color in the roomthe various colors of hosiery. You have found, grey, the woman, her cloak covering her hair, a photograph in your book,sand, the basket on the bureau. You tell the storywhere her hands are, chiral, reaching,…

  • What Pains Await Me

    What Pains Await Me

    Some places have a certain smellThe gymnasium when I was youngLike tin and sweat – a scent that makesMe anxious and excited A field before a soccer gameFresh grass, and the air of success This courtroom has a smellIt’s the first one I’ve ever been inWhat pains await me on the far sideOf its sense…

  • Divine

    Divine

    If not Divine, thenwhat are we?Progress and processfrom some hapless form;some simple thing,some lesser beast,some soulless creature fully leastthat yet still walksin wood or jungle,flies in sky,crawls from hole or swims in sea? What that livesconsiders itself,except the human,to ask, “What made me?”What living that walksor flies or crawls or swimsbegs answers to questions this…

  • Roald Dahl’s Tree

    Roald Dahl’s Tree

    It would have taken, you said, at least ten people holding hands to encircle the tree. For each meter or so of circumference, a baobob is supposed to have lived one hundred years, so this tree in Tanzania, with a view of the Indian Ocean, is more than a thousand years old, several feet of…

  • A Brief Look of Concern

    A Brief Look of Concern

    I wish I was a better man.I would bargain for itwith Mephistopheles – clutch hisoffered claw in mine.With no irony, I would ask thisof God if I was only capableof admitting to myself that…that…That it’s my fault.All of it.It was me from the start, wanting otherwomen, thinking of ways to convince youthat it wasn’t so…

  • Five

    Five

    Skram Firstly, I started as an abandoned architecture photographer, and that starting influence remains strongly within my aesthetic. This photo was taken in black and white film and colorized. This was on the rooftop of an abandoned mining train factory, Goodman Manufacturing, in Chicago on the south side. This panel either controlled the industrial elevators…

  • SPANKING THE BABY: Second Thoughts on Discipline

    SPANKING THE BABY: Second Thoughts on Discipline

    Harriet Winslow held up the Mexican baby by the feet and whacked her on the buttocks. A good hard spanking, Harriet reflected later, which she enjoyed, in truth, but which saved the child’s life. The spanking jarred the phlegm which was choking the little girl to death, and then Harriet sucked out the phlegm, and…

  • Ames Room

    Ames Room

    I believe in Trapezoidal Magic. The ophthalmologist Ames must have had a showman’s heart to construct a room whose walls are not perpendicular but slanted, and the ceiling and the floor incline so the world we see through the peephole makes a dwarf and a giant of the same man, and a ball rolls seemingly…

  • Self-Preservation for English Majors

    Self-Preservation for English Majors

               Good morning.             Welcome to Self-Preservation for English Majors. I hope you all had a lovely summer.             Please stop flirting, you two. You can disappoint each other on your own time. Thank you.             As you know, this is a required sophomore-level course for all English majors. At one time, this class was offered…

  • To the Peasant Poet

    To the Peasant Poet

    I grab my journal to jot down fragments that rhyme.             My boring assignments can wait a short time.In my mind is a dreamscape all my own,Designed to be like the fields you had known. Splashes of white dot the land and sky —The daisies swaying and clouds drifting by.The breeze blows through my loosened hair,And…

  • We Hear Everything

    We Hear Everything

    Mommy and Daddy love you very much. This isn’t your fault, baby. No, no, it has nothing to do with that. Sometimes it happens. People change, they stop feeling – No, sweetheart, no. I’ll always love you. Always! It’s different. You’ll understand when you’re older. Nothing happened. You heard that? It’s not what you think.…