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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.

“Rancher and Sick Cow”

Posted on May 20, 2018 by JMN
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“Justice of the Piece”

Posted on May 19, 2018 by JMN
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Facing Facebook

Posted on May 19, 2018 by JMN

I haven’t deleted Facebook. That would amount to locking the door after the assassin has entered the house. I open FB in order to dismiss notifications. Then I quickly exit, like slamming a window shut to keep a hornet from … Continue reading →

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Make Intelligent Mistakes

Posted on May 19, 2018 by JMN

Make intelligent mistakes. (No idea who said this.) What interests me about rhyming is how it can force you to say something that you didn’t intend to say. It can make your poem go in a new direction. It may not … Continue reading →

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Happy Words

Posted on May 19, 2018 by JMN

“Blowsy abstraction jostling with derelict figuration.” (Schejdahl?) “Yawing between gesture and smear.” (Ditto?) “Painting isn’t dead except as a major art. From now on it will be a discourse of adepts, like jazz.” (Dave Hickey) “Attack with paint the shallow … Continue reading →

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“Guy In a Hat”

Posted on May 19, 2018 by JMN

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Untimely Splooge?

Posted on May 19, 2018 by JMN

As a twenty-something aspiring writer I felt I was duty bound to tilt at every convention I could locate, and to speak unvarnishedly about it. I had read Burroughs and Berryman and Updike. Regrettably, one redoubt I chose briefly to … Continue reading →

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The Snout

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

The snout of a maintainer is a blunt piece of overstatement at the insect level. What’s not to love? No wonder so many movie monsters have been buggish. It’s cold comfort, yet assuaging, to reflect that when we mammals croak … Continue reading →

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Happy Words

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

A ninja of the recondite… Queasy pudding… Codwalloping colossus… Like Puritans and Papists… In Shakespeare’s “King Henry IV, Part 2,” when the King says the rebels are fifty-thousand strong, Warwick gently chides him saying, “Rumour doth double, like the voice … Continue reading →

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Didactic Doggerel

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

A Truly Jumbo Shrimp It’s said a jumbo shrimp’s an oxymoron. A shrimp’s a little thing you put red sauce on And gobble by the dozen boiled or fried. Some of us could eat more if we tried. Enter the … Continue reading →

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