Category Archives: poetry

a post about poetry, possibly including a poem

Scary Creatures

Posted on 2013-04-03 by TJ

Behold the scary creatures I have known on land and sea and even in the air: a shark or two, sea-lions and a duck whose hurling form came headlong at my face in level flight. My eyes could see so … Continue reading →

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The Art of Arbitrary Choices

Posted on 2013-03-26 by TJ

Engineering is more like art than people think. So is science. The key to all of them is the same: making arbitrary choices well. On the face of it, an arbitrary choice ought to be, well… arbitrary. It shouldn’t matter … Continue reading →

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What is Art?

Posted on 2013-03-03 by TJ

Art is an act of communication between two human beings that involves intentionality on the part of the creator and inference of that intentionality on the part of at least one impersonal experiencer. By “impersonal experiencer” I mean one who … Continue reading →

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Rain

Posted on 2013-01-08 by TJ

Hard rain against the window, hollow sounds of glass reverberating in the storm; fat drops of cold hard rain, wind blowing down against the brittle barricades forlorn while crows in murders glide down through the grey and shapeless fog that … Continue reading →

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to wound the autumnal city.

Posted on 2012-09-20 by TJ

But I still hear them walking in the trees: not speaking. Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland into the hills, I have come to Dhalgren is a novel that … Continue reading →

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Identity

Posted on 2012-08-24 by TJ

I am made of rusty steel and old sun-hardened leather; flagellating ligaments of gut and binder twine. Behold the man: an awkward compilation of inadequate exigencies unversed in protocol. Analogue approximations rule my sovereign deviations while digital domains complete halting … Continue reading →

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Time and Chance

Posted on 2012-08-19 by TJ

There has been some discussion of late as to the role of chance in “mega-success”: super-stardom, best-sellerdom, etc. The argument is simple, and goes like this: given a population of individuals all of whom are about the same quality, the … Continue reading →

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Textures

Posted on 2012-07-02 by TJ

Cool textured shadows of the branches move across the mottled surface of this wall as summer breezes waver through the trees imprinting on my memory transience: the sun obscured by momentary cloud erases all but that which dwells inside, for … Continue reading →

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Closure

Posted on 2012-05-19 by TJ

I suck at endings. If there are really two types of people in the world–ones who start projects and ones who finish them–I am definitely of the former variety. That said, for every beginning there must be an end. Today … Continue reading →

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The Most Important Discovery of My Life

Posted on 2012-05-01 by TJ

I have found the key to one of life’s great mysteries, and in doing so settled an argument that has plagued and divided people since nigh-on the beginning of the Epoch. It is a burning, eternal question, the tinder that … Continue reading →

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