AFTER the war the crumbled wall was well at rest. With time and the expense of memory it said in wasted bricks, "You have fallen, but not so completely."
Dust revealed the blush foreground, the light as it was, then,
Watched with purple eyelids, and
Said now, "You have fallen, but not so completely".
In this instance he would go inside himself to the land where he and his sister had grown up, where he, rather, they had already begun to prepare for their children. The invisible generation still waiting to appear, they were to tend all the familiar things.
But inside it was not the kind of place he could look at or walk past--instead it was a blue coil reverberating with a chill tone. This was forgiveness. He might've had a field of hearts to share this choice, all for naught. He spent those moments, that evening, choking on the one he had.
The Monkey
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There’s an area in our home referred to as “The Black Hole” as things tend
to disappear there never to be seen again. The notion that something
uncanny e...
Punk Rock Indoctrination
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It happens for different folks at different ages. Some folks were lucky and
got in at age 13, some people are late bloomers and it didn't happen until
17 o...
Lahti
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I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius
Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's
revelatory B...
On being realistic and calls for gradual change …
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Hey y’all!
Sorry I disappeared again. My brother Bill took ill right after Christmas,
and he spent 49 days in the hospital. As many of you know, Bill is...
Space miso tastes weird—not bad, but… different
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[image: Space miso in the center. (Maggie Coblentz)]
Food researchers ran a rather curious culinary experiment aboard the
International Space Station—they ...
brass mirrors ferns marble
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for fifteen years i dissociated into a blog
it had to be worse than just going wrong
for me to see what's been all along
i realize now i could not fi...
The merry month.
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THIS SUMMER FOOD & WhIskEy goes vegan. In the month of May I'll host
weekly recipe post events devoted to each of the dear sacrifices to follow;
there ...
Watch this and remain unmoved
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This is a dip into where I’m going with the next mix. This particular
avenue of Cajun music used to rub me the wrong way because it is so
unrelentingly hap...
Yessss!
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Guess who I met today?
Listen to Mike Newman's interview with Derek on EVR: just select the Nov 5
archive. Mike always scores the best guests--because...
Can CDs save the music industry?
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A report in the current issue of* Music Week* suggests that the CD format
could still have life left in it, and major music companies may be just
about ...
Martha is a genius
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I'm no Martha hater and, as you've probably figured out, I have fantasies
about having a clean and organized house (in my eternal anti-hoarding
fight, I re...
Bang A Gong
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*to Paul Harrison*
3 or 4 bottles of tussin
and a couple vics I'd
be good to go taking
down a bank on new year's
eve all those fat tellers
already dripping ...
The Year of the Critter
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This year hasn't been much of a photo year for me. I'm alright with that.
I've been keeping busy with work, my bicycles, and little furry cute
things.My zo...
The moon and others.
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I woke up very early this morning wanting to blurt this out. I don't use
this forum any longer and perhaps I thought it could be a partial secret.
Anyway, ...
We get by with a little help from our friends...
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The core of creative work is exchange. We exchange ideas, we collaborate,
we share ourselves with each other (as in photographer and subject.) A few
month...