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The Non-Centrality of the Character
An essay on why vivid prose centers action rather than characters, showing how pronouns can conceal weak sentences and stall narrative momentum.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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Untitled IV
Kareem felt content knowing he had pursued and received his heart’s desire. His admiration for the painting required no explanation, reasoning, or scholarly analysis.
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The Mystery Man
Ensconced at his corner table with a window view facing Loughrigg Fell, he placed his backpack deliberately on a chair…they watched in silence, transfixed, as if observing some exotic religious…
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Four Plus Three Poems
Semiotics Mum talking with her hands driving fast Instructions for Goal Celebrations, or If You Should Score 1: Scorer gives a fist-pump, points or fires invisible arrow. 2: Scorer rips…
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These aren’t happy tears
Outlaws The crowd Trembles As the outlaws live. As one man Homeless Writes poetry With cigarette ash. As one woman Starved Dances ballet With blood on her shoes. Me,…
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Summer Rain
Still alive, still alive, Marie thinks. While he remains with her, his impending death is hard to imagine. He’s dying, Marie knows. She doesn’t delude herself into thinking it won’t…
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The Extraordinary True Life of E. Pluribus Unum
Like Washington, the hero of the Revolution and the first president of the nation, I was instructed as a child not to lie (something some recent presidents thrived on) so…
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Inside the Void
Jennifer didn’t know how long she had been trapped inside the void, watching abandoned houses, cars, and structures floating through the air. A thick blanket of fog always enveloped the…
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Twinkie Twinkie Little Star
A golden sliver of sun peeked over the horizon of the scorched land like the whole world was in on playing pretend it was going to be a pleasant day.…
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Dark Sky and other poems
Early Warning Not a virile blooming of grass-hue but a graceless, flesh-sick rising from the ruptures, as life-lines grouted badly by a weekend without washing. These things build up over…
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The Shadow President
They talk about him all the time, the president. People love to talk about powerful people. The more powerful you are the more often you will be in the news,…