If you can't see

You can’t see the forest for the trees if you can’t see the trees.

We are all destroyed

We are all destroyed by something other than the thing we think is destroying us.

Flatten

To flatter is to flatten.

How much we depend

How much we depend on what we believe others already know.

New poems

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What is left (Dunlop)

You feel the loneliness.
That's what is left of the dream of beauty.

Rishma Dunlop, from "Saccade"

Almost heroic

It is almost heroic to see that the heroes are not who they tell you they are.

An inordinate amount of time

We spend an inordinate amount of time reversing the reversals.

Most poems

Most poems are not strange enough because most poets are not honest enough.

A sin

It is a sin to call a mistake a sin.

Between This World and the Text

My latest poetry collection is now out and available on Amazon!

Between This World and the Text

New poems

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Comes from

What comes next comes from what came before.

Calling it

Putting this with that and calling it the other.

Intelligence

Intelligence is concatenative.

It is best to know

It is best to know if you are trying to validate or invalidate.

New poems

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Never

Struggle is never beautiful.

The template of no

The template of no always produces an upwelling of yes.

The greatest tyrant

The greatest tyrant is the one who insists you are free.