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PLOG

Posted on May 27, 2018 by JMN

PLOG – Poetry Log (Started 25 April 2011) These are the flags: Code Mauve, Code Beige, Code Gray. Code Mauve: I can understand the poem’s language and can make sense of what the language describes or asserts. This can produce … Continue reading →

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“Go ahead, make my tea”

Posted on May 27, 2018 by JMN

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They Spy With Their Little Eye

Posted on May 25, 2018 by JMN

The exoplanet Kepler-twenty-two-B Has temperatures designed for you and me. (“What is an exoplanet?” you might say. It’s one outside our system, far away.) Pools of liquid water could exist there, So life just might be able to subsist there. … Continue reading →

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“To be invisible…”

Posted on May 23, 2018 by JMN

“To be invisible is to be forgotten… To be a symbol, and an effective symbol, you must be vividly and often seen.” (Walter Bagehot, quoted by Gary Younge in The Guardian.) What propels me, a mildly reticent recluse, to put … Continue reading →

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Two Testaments

Posted on May 20, 2018 by JMN

THE BOOK OF DON’T Waste not. Want not. Kill not. Lust not. Rage not. Curse not. Gawk not. Binge not. Lie not. Lay not. THE BOOK OF DO Do not. (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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“Justice of the Piece”

Posted on May 19, 2018 by JMN
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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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“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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