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Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
25.9.20

Street Photography: 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens (Plus Some Creative Writing)

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     What was supposed to be a walk to increase my daily steps turned into a journey. People pop out. Restaurants offer outside seating. The...
10.8.11

Prose Poem: "Cloister"

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image credit: Greig Roselli In the cloister, there is often a sign on the porter’s door that reads, behind this door no one is allowed. ...
24.7.11

Poem: A Monk Reads at Table

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image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art at table reading, our minds most likely a cacophony of invective, misery, and lower bac...
6.4.11

Gloss on Graduate School: Graduate Student Essential Recipe

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1 bag of black-eyed bean* + water + 1 onion (peeled) +i jalapeno. Cook till tender add a bag of frozen collard greens and a ham bo...
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18.1.11

"The Red Wheelbarrow"; Or, A Poem About Poetry

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In this post, I write about my favorite William Carlos William's  poem  —  "The Red Wheelbarrow". "The Red Wheelbarrow&q...
25.12.10

Christmas Post: If Jesus were Albrecht Dürer

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Self-Portrait of Albrecht Dürer The twenty-fifth day of December is an odd time to commemorate an incarnation of a God? I agree with T....
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8.12.10

A Little Bit of Poetry: "Poem for a Trieb"

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In this post, I present a poem I wrote inspired by a night of Scrabble where I felt the tug and pull of friendships and a desire to break ...
13.8.10

Poem for a Phlebotomist's Office (Or, a Public Service Announcement for Donating Blood)

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I present you with a poem to be read out-loud at your next visit to get your blood drawn. Read this poem when you get your blood taken. He...
9.6.10

Poem: Train Station, Hammond, Louisiana

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  photo continuance: seattleweekly stands a peach and plum seller and his grandson, a pail of peaches for 10, a basket of plums for 5;...
7.6.10

Poem: "Heart Surgery"

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After heart surgery, he appeared at supper smiling, though hunched over, as if his soul had trouble holding him up as if he were...
6.6.10

Poem: Upon Pouring Coffee

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the black, raven colored chemical that I love to drink in the morning, with my fat, contented cup for my fat contented ladies, sits pe...
13.5.10

Poem: “Backyard Fantasyland”

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We hop around bridges, we dance with trolls. We have a blast with ants. We meet with nymphs and fairys. Rabbits show the way. It is s...
14.4.10

On a Visit to Ozanam Inn in New Orelans — A Men's Homeless Shelter

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New Orleans has an all-men homeless shelter on Camp Street. Today my cousin and I stepped inside to take a look.   photo credit: Ozanam Inn ...

Poem: “Chinese Buffet”

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photo credit: wikimedia at the chinese buffet, during lunch hour there's a table of brash intimacy and lunch hour camaraderie - ...
12.4.10

Poetry: Gone with the Wind, among others — Leuven, Belgium

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In this poem , which I wrote when I was a college student at the Catholic University of Leuven (K.U.L.), and living as a seminarian at the A...

Alpha Christ Mural from Saint Joseph Abbey With Accompanying Poem

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Artist credit: A mural by Gregory DeWit,  St. Joseph Abbey Church , Saint Benedict, Louisiana PDF Copy for Printing

Poem: Neutral Ground

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photo credit: Trevor Logan, Jr. Neutral Ground On the corner of Carrollton and Willow, waiting for a bus, the # 34, to be exac...
6.4.10

Prose Poem: "to leave"

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to unsettle from place is fearful: fear eats the soul; they say face your fears, but isn’t place a barrier between us and our fears; a co...
9.10.04

Poem: Fat Contented Ladies

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photo credit: Greig Roselli* the fat contented ladies with their formaldehyde eyeliner, pat expressions - flit around like wearied ...