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About JMN

I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.

“Ears Wide Open”

Posted on September 24, 2018 by JMN

nyti.ms/2DgcwrX Nice little video about traveling on sound, suppressing text to enhance the experience.

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1987: There are two “topics” on my mind…

Posted on September 23, 2018 by JMN

[Dear Mother,] There are two “topics” on my mind. One results from watching the C-Span show where people call in from all over the country, usually to a group of journalists. I’ve seen it twice in the last several days; … Continue reading →

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How It Goes

Posted on September 23, 2018 by JMN

Governor Nimati said that disaster in the Baghlan-e-Markazi district was averted last week only after the American military sent Special Forces troops to fight alongside Afghan commandos, backed up by airstrikes. But as soon as the Americans and the commandos … Continue reading →

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Help Wanted

Posted on September 23, 2018 by JMN

I count ninety-six pieces of J.S. Bach’s “Das Wohltemperirte Klavier” (The Well-tempered Clavier — does “tempered” mean “tuned”?). I don’t know if ninety-six is the canonical count. I may have miscounted. I purchased the recording from iTunes some years ago … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Tongues

Posted on September 23, 2018 by JMN
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Garabatos

Posted on September 23, 2018 by JMN
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You Have to Break an Egg to… You Know the Rest

Posted on September 23, 2018 by JMN

It’s a cruel trick the Fates play on this hapless heathen, but the odds are just as sure as shootin’ that on the rare day I make a three-egg omelet the THIRD egg will have a double yolk! <picture here … Continue reading →

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Liberties Taken

Posted on September 22, 2018 by JMN

I want to think out loud about how poetry works, but without being too scrupulous about terminology. It just slows me down to try to re-research what the proper name for everything is. For a specimen I want to take … Continue reading →

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Women Declared To Be ‘Persons’!

Posted on September 21, 2018 by JMN

“We believe that a very large number of women do not desire to vote. They shrink from having to go to the polling booths on election days. They would much prefer staying at home and attending to their household duties.” … Continue reading →

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Grace Under Fire

Posted on September 21, 2018 by JMN

My spirits purveyor hails from Boston and likes to revel in how ancient certain landmarks are in that city compared to the scrubby, nondescript backwater he and I both inhabit now — I natively, he God knows why. Sometimes I … Continue reading →

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