The Figment
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The difficulty of the mid length poem
What even is mid-length? To me its any one-two page poem. It’s a tough length! Most of the time i have some idea for a poem, and it is crystalized immediately in a poem-diamond you can pierce through your ear. It’s a single statement of truth. Its something that I can put into words, and…
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Distortion photography is all photography, it only differs by how much.
We talk about “the human eye” as though we were cyclopses. But we have two eyes and they work in tandem to make the world around us make sense. I keep seeing new hashtags, and different apps suggest different ones. Apparently, I am really into #distortionphotography. But this itself seems so distorted to me. The…
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The Temptations of Public Discourse
Is it even possible to not engage in public discourse? To question this reality in my own head, perhaps might short circuit the premise. But otherwise, as soon as I say it out loud to my rabbit, or my husband, or my sister, it is in someway publicized – reformatted and prepackaged for THEIR consumption.…
Erin Oubliette 