Monthly Archives: May 2018

Thirty-Four Paintings

(01) “Madonna of the Yardwinder” (02) “Madonna With a Cat” (03) “Madonna of the Pomegranate” (04) “Madonna of the Carnation” (05) “Madonna With a Vase of Flowers” (06) “Madonna and Child With Saints Sebastian and Francis” (07) “Benois Madonna” (08) … Continue reading

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HJN, Untitled Watercolor

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Eulogy on Mother’s Day

[My mother died in 2016. This is from my remarks at her memorial.] PERSISTENCE: SING IT THIS WAY A memorial service unites you and us in a common undertaking to hold on, briefly, to someone who is departing. In some … Continue reading

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“Rifleman”

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Happy Words

I have taken a vow of poetry — I shall never be a Person of Wealth. Strong and Wrong ATT-Novartis Corporate Hedgequarters No Lordering (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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From Memory

“The Second Coming,” poem by W. B. Yeats, http://www.poetryfoundation.org. Yeats, like Shelley in “Ozymandias,” associates folly and tyranny and self-aggrandizement with the desert lands. That happens to be where the trio of stern monotheisms were “revealed”: I’m the Only One, … Continue reading

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“Shirtless”

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Didactic Doggerel

Space-Ball Note: Merkanooka is in Australia. Seguin, a town in Texas, is pronounced “suh-GHEEN.” Turley is in Oklahoma. A space-ball fell from nowhere on Namibia, A place more noted for a fossil tibia. Another one, the Merkanooka ball From Gemini, … Continue reading

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“Physical person”

Law school was where I first met the term “physical person.” It puzzled me initially: What person would not be “physical”? That started my education about the bizarre legal fiction that asserts corporations to be people with rights and privileges … Continue reading

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Tentative Signage

Kinda There –> <– A Little Bit Yonder (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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