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"this is the world as best as I can remember it"

Monday, February 25, 2019

Daehangno

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The cleaning out of the crawl space continues to provide trips down memory lane.  Yesterday it was this poster from my time in Korea....
Friday, February 15, 2019

The Winds of Olympic Park

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서울 올림픽 공원 The wind whipped soundly  on the high grass covered hills  of Seoul’s Olympic Park. I felt I could fly, or at lea...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Planet Poppyseed

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Like an Apollo  moon shot I rocket to work leaving the  gravitational pull of Planet Poppyseed. The time  spent away ...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Loser

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I found it in the library’s culled CD stack and slid a dollar bill into the slot of the wooden collection box on the wall to clai...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Bottom of a Well

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At the bottom of a well the circle of light above looks small and moon-like. I need a rocket ship for rescue, but when that  ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Te Deum

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The click of plastic CD cases   sets a cadence for musical exploration in the used CD shop on Kirkwood. The novelty of digi...
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Friday, December 07, 2018

Couch in my Pocket

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I want a couch in my pocket that I can pull out whenever  I need, cup it in my hands, and with a few warm puffs it expands t...
Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Grace is a Pale Blue Orb

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Grace is a pale blue orb offered by selfless hands, received into an open heart. Like the earth seen from the moon, the dept...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

The Library across the Street

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He hangs out on a bench  at the library with all his  belongings in a bag. It’s not necessarily good or bad happy or ...
Thursday, November 08, 2018

The Reckoning of Now

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When things have been rough  (and they’ve been rough recently)  I’ve had the tendency to escape  in my mind to the past, to what  ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

In Search of the Night Kastle

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The feather lay half in and half out of shadow, clean and dry, molted, not torn free or bloodied. A sigh of relief esca...
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“Aaroneous Monk” brings to mind the image of a bumbling but well-meaning hermit who continually trips himself up in his overgrown beard as he attempts to battle evil in the world but, more often than not, forgets about the darkness in his own heart. It also sounds similar to the legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, but with a faux-Greek twist. Thelonious was known for being able to maintain two disparate rhythms going at the same time with his hands seemingly disconnected from each other. That kinda sums up my struggle...
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