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Monthly Archives: March 2015
A Single Photon Entangles Thousands of Autumns*
Six months and eight minutes ago You were walking in an autumn afternoon, Looking at the white strips of birch Bark peeling away from the trunks, You were building a blind in the field By the river thinking about Christmas … Continue reading
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Cinquain in Late March
Cattails rattle, icy in the marsh; snow muffles the fields—and no geese call yet, wild, joyful
Posted in Cattails, Cinquain, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie Poetry, Marsh, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Spring, Wild Geese, Wild Geese in Spring
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The Moon Turns Over and Over—As a Song
Michael Leon occasionally puts to music my attempts at writing songlike things, as he’s done with this piece I wrote last fall (lyrics here). The simple (but perhaps overly busy) video portion must be blamed solely on me as I … Continue reading
Posted in Art is theft, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Collaboration, Cosmology, Country music, Country song, Emma Tibaldo, Gravity, Hank Williams, John MacKenzie, Memory, Michael Leon, Music, Poetry, Process, Science, Space, The Moon, The Sky, Time
Tagged art is theft, astronomy, astrophysics, collaboration, cosmology, country music, country song, Emma Tibaldo, gravity, Hank Williams, John MacKenzie, John MacKenzie poetry, Michael Leon, music, poetry, process, science, space, the moon, the sky, time
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Connaught Square revisited
Last September I posted a poem about the dying elms in Connaught Square (Many of the elms in Charlottetown are dead or dying). In January, the city announced that all the dead and dying elms would be cut down. Today, as … Continue reading
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Serendipitous Collaboration
The image embedded lower in this post came to me courtesy of Matt Trussell, who lives beside a bog somewhere in Maine. I don’t know much more about him other than that he is quite pleasant in communication, likes baseball, … Continue reading
Posted in Art is lies, Art is theft, Baseball, Collaboration, Fantasy Baseball, John MacKenzie, Matt Trussell, Poetry, Process, Red-winged blackbird, Serendipity, Spring
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“Containing the whole Science of Government”
I’m reading Dickens’ Little Dorrit and it’s true that Chapter 10, headed “Containing the whole Science of Government” does contain the whole science of government. Go read it. Go read the whole immense novel. Here’s an excerpt from the aforementioned … Continue reading
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The Full Moon Tonight
Last night on Facebook, an old friend posted a photo of the moon seen through cherry blossoms. Cherry blossoms demand haiku. The Full Moon Tonight for Sue Hughson The full moon tonight— just one more brief, white blossom in the cherry tree
Posted in Art is theft, Cherry blossoms, Haiku, John MacKenzie, Memory, New poems, Poem tweets, Poetry, Process, Spring, The Moon, Time
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The Face of Allah
I could not find the face of Allah In the debris of mountain slides, In blue fragments of mosaics, In the desolation of stars fallen behind The ground-down blade of the moon. I heard rumours he spoke in many voices … Continue reading →