The more I learn of history, I can't help but wonder if the liberty the American forefathers desired was to make of themselves kings in the New World. John Locke spoke in his treatises on government of the, "life, liberty, and property," owed to all men, from which the inalienable rights of the 1775 Declaration …
turgid
swollen verses of the tediously bombast— the intarsia of agitprop, the germane rouse; which pretends at dignity yet without the telic substance of coherence are "pompous words walking aimlessly through the landscape in search of an idea." this was said of Warren Harding, a president who would not be known were not the effigy of …
forests of Iroquois
afterwards there was a cast of sawdust the earth trembling quiet, and spirits of the forest winnow while the daguerreotype blackened— a voice of maudlin nostalgia rasps unintelligible; but still i listen. resting upon the tree stump (its name 'sui generis' was) i'm conscious that weeks gone by what i heard were likely Silverstein's homilies …
Langston Hughes
I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
september 17th, 2022
The time I spend in museums is not enough. I’ve always been a student of art history, since my adolescent years, but had no interest then in the collecting of fine hobbies. I used to find it pretentious, to roam sterile halls lined with 'Please Do Not Touch' signs and to regurgitate facts you read …
The-Bleu-Bivouac 