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| Akashi Gidayu (writing his death poem before committing Seppuku) by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka c. 1890 |
My dream has been to craft writing that matters. I am motivated by a need to emphasize the direct spontaneity of mind as, in essence, a creative intuition, where through honing a creative craft, significance is placed on the world uniquely and honestly, without narrow frames of reference. I am interested in the whole being, including one's dreams which only reveal themselves in one's most private, trusted, spirit-bound state: sleep, or intoxication in a poetry which reflects the true, unadulterated nature of mind.
Read my recent publication at ditch, the poetry that matters
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Sitting around a table at a cozy bookshop, I am unaware as
to my true motivation and internally neglect my immediate surroundings. I sit
around a group of people with small, cottage industry books, with handmade
paper and designs painted right on. They are of all sizes and degrees of
detail, mostly amateurish, though charming. Many sneer at me as I handle
five-stacked copies of poets.org magazine. People begin reading. As I listen, I
inwardly revolt. “I can’t read with these people,” I think. As my turn comes, I
feel exceedingly confident, and begin reading my piece to great delight. The
second piece I read starts with a Latin phrase, including “spiritus” and other
recognizable Latin terms. A man scoffs at me from across the table. Other
people feel lessened by my proud nature, stifling their humiliated travails
with my officialdom. I receive no congratulations. Forget community inspiration.
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Book Store
"To visit a book store in your dream, foretells you will be filled with literary aspirations, which will interfere with your other works and labors." (iDream)
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Controlled by the mind of unborn dreamingas our mundane praise sickens the grieving
erasure of a loveless burden
"for the intensity of an aspiring fear?
towards the weird?"
linguistic tribes
pour over their bandaged fingers of torrent
for one emotional quake
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To the nervous body of tradition
tortured by the hours of sitting
in tragic rooms
oblivious to all the news in the world
of gross and entombed friendships
with the eternally dead
subject
To writing possibilities in the voice
of a suicidal mage
Thanking the lessons of the flesh
in an impoverished state
- excerpt from "a message for the few"
