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hopscotch pattern

moon chops through clouds swelled with wind by neither wind nor hand a lute wanders hundred year tunes a gathering of umbrellas in hopscotch pattern hope for night rain a sandle hops into night black the words will have to … Continue reading

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Musings

Or really, honestly, are you ever going to finish things? It’s been apparent lately that I have been on a poetry and prose streak. Well, I say streak, now it’s really all I do. And really (as of right now) … Continue reading

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Julio Cortazar and his insect audience (and one spider) (3rd set) (Poems and Pictures)

Solitary light could be the last fails to hold the moths attention incandescent words emanating from Cortazar’s pages keeps the lepidopteran in raptures     ~~~ Thundering down pour lacewing shelters delicate wings under the crumpled spine of Cortazar’s Hopscotch … Continue reading

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Hopscotch (Poems)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A game of hopscotch chalk outline on black paving the guardian of chance ~~~ The Gods decide fates and destiny on a hopscotch course marked out on the stars ~~~ … Continue reading

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Ted the Spider and his Literary Adventures

There is a spider clinging to the wall. His name is Ted. While I am writing Ted is looking down on me. Ted is brown, hairy and eight legged yet he does not provide much in the way of feedback. … Continue reading

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The City of La Maga

The city of La Maga decided that it did not like its current design. So down came the towers, the houses, the apartments, the libraries and the shops. After the deconstruction was complete the residents of La Maga drew out … Continue reading

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Julio Cortazar and his (near) Infinite Book

Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch is a masterful literary creation and is one of those books that can be called genius. The story told within the book is rather simple and is summarised well by Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch_%28Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar_novel%29 Also here is the Wikipedia … Continue reading

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