Between Two Rivers

Terroir (VII)

Or: “Reasons for Being Here.” An ars poetica.

Sint-Niklaaskerk (St. Nicholas’ Church) at night, Ghent, Belgium.
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July 28, 2024

America, ars poetica, art, belonging, home, longing, Poetry, reasons
Terroir (VI)

Or: “Lexicon.” For the Belgians.

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July 27, 2024

Belgium, Dutch, French, language, language learning, lexicon, Poetry, terroir
Terroir (V)

Or: “The Open Window.” In memory of my paternal grandfather (爺爺). With thanks to dVerse for the prompt.
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July 26, 2024

ballata, Corona, dVerse, grandfather, memory, morning, New York, Poetry, Queens, rhymed verse, routine
Terroir (IV)

Or: “Askance.” In memory of my maternal grandmother (婆婆).
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July 25, 2024

character, China, Chinese, grandmother, Guangzhou, memory, Poetry, terza rima, writing
Terroir (III)

Or: “Horses.” With thanks to dVerse for the prompt.

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair (1852-55). Oil on canvas. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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July 24, 2024

dVerse, horses, New Jersey, Painting, Poetry, suburbs, urban landscape
Terroir (II)

Or: “A Storm in Heaven,” written in the form of a quadrille (almost!). With thanks to dVerse for the prompt.

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July 23, 2024

dVerse, Hong Kong, longing, memory, nostalgia, poetics, Poetry, quadrille, rain, roots, routes, summer, terroir
Terroir (I)

Or: “A Littoral Apology.” At the Raritan Bay Waterfront Park in South Amboy, NJ.

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July 22, 2024

apology, birds, grackles, identity, littoral, New Jersey, origins, poetics, Poetry, seagulls, terroir, terza rima
Jersey Nights

Three short essays. Written in the late hours of Friday into the early ones of Saturday.

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July 21, 2024

arcade, driving, friends, memory, New Jersey, nostalgia, Somerville, sushi
Three Relations

Between things. At the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (my alma mater!) in New Brunswick, NJ.

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July 20, 2024

attention, contact, destruction, equivalence, figures, George Segal, incorporation, loneliness, New Jersey, Poetry, sculpture, seeing, Zimmerli Art Museum
Precision

Of a feeling.
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July 19, 2024

feeling, negation, Poetry, precision, rhymed verse, searching