BurningbirdI’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interrupting the play I’m having with the RDF Poetry Finder essays to see what others are saying, and also to add some geek stuff so people know that there really is a string at the end of this particular balloon. Joseph Duemer (and Frank Paynter, indirectly) expressed some concerns about the image=abstraction view of poetry, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Third in a multi-part series focusing on RDF (Resource Description Framework) and poetry and demonstrating two-way integration between art and technology. No prior experience with either RDF or poetry is required. “My father was a drunk. He beat my mother, he beat me. And my mother, rather than fight back, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have been lax with the next essay in the RDF Poetry Finder series, The Technician Sleeps while the Poet Speaks. However, I have not been lax in the effort. For instance, there’s a good discussion on this at Renaissance Web, where I’ve been wrestling with some fairly tough questions. (Also other many good conversations […]
If any of you have experience with tick bites, particularly in the midwest, Missouri would be ideal, could you email me? I have a couple of questions. Thanks! Part of a massive ant colony in the woods near St. Louis.