Thursday, 11 February 2021

The grievous worries of Gissingites . . . ‘You have to promise me to suppress your redundant auxiliary verbs . . . ’ (To Have and Have Not, Part 2.)

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I fear the following reflections rehash a Case of Unfinished Business inasmuch as a little while ago I challenged  those assumptions that ...
Friday, 11 December 2020

Socialist Realism. . . a Brief History. . .

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 A peasant named Prosper  was shot for stealing a turnip  so he did not live to see  the farmer rebury the turnip.  Prosper received no such...
Thursday, 26 November 2020

Pseudo-Borges . . . the Academy of Silence and their Oracular Urn

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There existed in ancient Greece a curious association called the Academy of Silence. It was composed of 100 members, each one pledged to do ...
Monday, 12 October 2020

Riffrains of a Jazz-Loving Poet . . . Winter Crossings by Alexis Lykiard.

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Admirers of Alexis Lykiard ’s signature wit and brio will be rewarded by his new collection, Winter Crossings , whose tonality, they will pl...
Friday, 2 October 2020

. . . . . . . . . . . . Hourglass . . . . . . . . . . . .

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. Without thought, from girlhood,    she had hoarded the sands      of sleep in an hourglass.      Her lashes were long,      unt...
Monday, 28 September 2020

Ebb tide

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            This Sunday morning             no church bells but the sound of             Tibetan wind chimes See also Three Haikus ...
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

The Presentment of Folly as a Ruin . . .

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              Death  bides alone, Accursed, the Unbesought,                                     Within the Crawl-Space of Life’s Edifice ...