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  • Coleridge in Xanadu

    The idea came at dawn between sleeps; I woke to drink from the tap and to check on the blue bird, deathly ill, and back in bed a thought appeared, quivered, somersaulted into another, a theme, a number — but then, Coleridge in Xanadu. Read.

  • On 3:AM + one or two other things

    Thought it was about time I put in writing here that I have joined the mighty 3:AM Magazine as a reviews/nonfiction editor, working closely with my good buddy K. Thomas Kahn. Been a reader of the journal, sometime contributor and an admirer of the current editorial team (Andrew Gallix, David Winters and Richard Marshall to begin Read.

  • B bomr L

    The sound of 08:18 27 May 2014, inadvertently recorded and saved to my Evernote account. Read.

  • Update (II)

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  • On the most human thing of all

    “There’s nobody here just dogs and cattle,” said Matsumara. Well, also an ostrich, which he is now taking care of. “It was just wandering around.” (Link.) Matsumara is 83, lived in Fukushima for 80 years, and returns to the exclusion zone to feed abandoned animals. Can’t help feeling like looking after animals is the most Read.

  • On White and The Vivisector and how somebody else ended up with my thoughts on Voss

    I read Voss as an undergraduate in an Australian Literature class at the University of Western Sydney. My teacher was Leon Cantrell. I had Leon a few times, and in one subject he came to class with his arm in a sling. Now, when I come across the texts that remind me of him (Dickinson’s Read.

  • *Clears throat*

    Read.