Showing posts with label Fool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fool. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2019

A Ridiculous Injury

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This early afternoon I was in too much of a hurry, rushing from a classroom down a hill via sloping walkways punctuated by steps and walkway...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Notebook: Dive Thoughts

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1.     Scribble, scribble, Mr. Gibbon : A box of saltines, Two cans of sardines, And a bottle of Irish: I feel ready. 2.  Wearing the ...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Step Sideways Towards A Truth

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I have always preferred Herodotus to Thucydides and Byron to Wordsworth. That meant, that means, according to grad school criteria (don...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Kelp and Wire: Old Art

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Fool's Gold; Or, The Admonition

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How good is the book in your head--if it isn't on the page? What book? I don't see a book. In the head or in the heart? Page, ...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Today's Profile Pics, Annotated

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Today, but so 80s. Practical #1. Practical #2. Earnest -- or goofy? Focus on the water. Cold water reveals your ...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Foolery and Rembrandt's Faint Echo

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Friend:    Matt, you are absolutely the master of the selfie! Self:    Well, that's not a thing to be proud of, entirely, but...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Jack Spicer: Of Fools, Goddesses, Heroes, Oceans, Love, and Memory

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ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN Any fool can get into an ocean    But it takes a Goddess    To get out of one. What’s true of oceans is...
Friday, October 19, 2012

"The Armor of Your Virtue"

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THE ARMOR OF YOUR VIRTUE Coffee cups, pastry plates, Corner booths, and study dates-- The rushing fool who hesitates Lately finds t...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Narcissus At Sea? Diving Like A Duck?

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The myth of Narcissus: fatuous overly-self-absorbed fool looking into a body of water and being pulled under by a water-nymph--as I'm r...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Roman Holidays?

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Or, CLASSICAL DOGGEREL ( circa 1995)      And "doggerel" means fairly bad poetry, or wannabe poetry, or something that looks a bi...