Now on.
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It’s not easy
The assignment was to write a sound poem or poem inspired by sound – to hyperfixate on our sonic experience, using the sounds as inspiration, abandoning conventional logic for the… Read more.
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Ponte dei Sospiri
I wrote this poem in May 2016 in exchange for a print of Bruce Bicknell’s painting of the “Bridge of Sighs” in downtown Scranton that connects the Fire Department headquarters… Read more.
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no war poem
No one wants to admit to bombing the girls’ school in Iranbut we’ve seen their graves gaping at uson the doomscrollsorderly rectangles dug in rowswaiting to swallow the bodies of165… Read more.
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Western People
I’m still a little stunned in the wake of our trip with Scranton Fringe to Ballina, Ireland. Although I’m not blessed with Irish ancestors myself, most of the Irish-American in… Read more.
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Paradise Found
It’s not unusual for Norman Fischer to offer a literary aside mid-dharma talk. There’s nothing strange about him citing Milton’s Paradise Lost to the Mountain Rain Sangha on the May… Read more.








