Between Two Rivers

Notes for a Poet of Many Names

Abstractions of the self (best read on desktop). After Wallace Stevens, Robert Hayden, and others. For all who call me by my names.
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June 16, 2024

abstract, character, Chinese, concrete poetry, identity, language, names, poet, poetics, Poetry, self
Precipice

An edge revisited (and remade)

Peak at Huashan (华山), China.
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June 15, 2024

dVerse, eagle, Icarus, nature, Poetry, precipice, sublime, Tennyson
Justification

On the form that a poem comes to inhabit. For M. P.
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June 14, 2024

dream, egrets, form, justification, motion, Poetry, shape, watercolor
Passages

On liminality (in-betweenness). With thanks to dVerse for another stimulating challenge.

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June 13, 2024

belonging, dVerse, hindsight, infinitive, liminality, memory, Poetry, presence, space, subjunctive
Local: A Quadrille

On returning to another home. Written in the one and only Philly, and inspired by a poetic challenge (read after the break for more!).

City Hall, Philadelphia (photo taken January 2024).
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June 12, 2024

dVerse, homecoming, nostalgia, Philadelphia, Poetry, quadrille
Characters

For eternity (永)

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June 11, 2024

calligraphy, character, Chinese culture, concrete poetry, eternity, Poetry, writing
Faces in a Crowd

High elections in a low country
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June 10, 2024

Belgium, elections, Poetry, politics
Flat Wash

Exercises in watercolor

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June 10, 2024

art, blue jay, color, New York, Painting, technique, wash, watercolor
Eenentwintig blikken op België / Twenty-one Ways of Looking at Belgium

My first attempts at writing poetry in Dutch! (English translations are at the end of the post.)

A mural somewhere in Brussels.
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June 9, 2024

België, Belgium, Dutch, Nederlands, poëzie, Poetry
Stir-Fry

Shrimp and egg fried rice (蝦蛋炒飯), for and by Mom
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June 8, 2024

choreography, concrete poetry, cooking, food, free verse, fried rice, Mom, performance, Poetry, stir-fry, wok