For lovers of Jane Austen. Sandy Run Novella Award Winner. 

The Austenites

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Judgment Day, Hangman

On  the  other  hand,  a  heavy  hand  is  something  I  have  learned  to  appreciate  in  a  poem.  Because  the  most  problematic  word  in  the  Portuguese  language  is  “coração”,  aka  heart.  Because  it  is  an  ugly  word.  

Prosopagnosia

What do Shrek, the table knife, and the guillotine have in common?

Famous Tauruses you didn't know were Tauruses

Hugo Grotius (2006-???)
My first neopet was named after Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius, whose portrait for some reason stood atop piles of books in my dad’s dusty desktop set-up. 

Internet Obits

While they flutter they shrug: 
"You're kind of a fixer-upper
but nothing that can't be salvaged"

(Issue: Heavy is the Head)

moths go by

John Ruskin painted the Roman Forum without knowing what it was, ruins devoid of context, part of the landscape. But I know the Roman forum:

3 Archaeologies of Ignorance: Rome, Vienna, Seville

- An Archaeology of Paris I & II
-mayerling
-The Greenest of Lawns
-Self-Care Villain Arc

Five Poems on the Theme POMEGRANATE

MAINTENANT 18 separates Merch and State by forging a non-monetary vision which exposes strategies to achieve socio-political and economic equality and serves against the military-industrialist complex
 

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I want to do that Walden shit / somewhere covered in ice sheets

The Alps Awake

Of course, Brazil is not a country. Not just in the way that no country is actually a country, but in a way that it is too many contradictory realities coexisting paradoxically. No one actually knows or understands Brazil. 

Underdog Days

No, I don’t know the first thing, but rest assured I know the second.

An Archaeology of Ignorance: Rome II

This considered, it seems consistent that the idea of ownership and authorship have become too intermingled with Taylor Swift, the proper, the popstar, the performer. 

Speak Now (As Then): Taylor Swift and the Philological Impulse

she said she’d deep-six the brain / if he didn’t move it by a given deadline /careful what you wish for, the pathologist’s ex-wife / if you think you can compare / to Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Einstein

Elegy for Einstein's Brain

Aftertaste

helvetica, bold

every school year

I would borrow a book from the library 

and keep it in my backpack until summer vacation

scribbled headlines in octopus ink

winter here is autumnal, a fall from grace in slow motion

prickling fingers reach out to my brain, surgical gadgets

apricots & co., if you love death so much why don't you marry it, Maniac Pixie (Nightmare Girl)

                         Thank you, tiny shrew
I sure hope you dined on the bones of those who had terrorized you

Mother Dawn

to translate something is to shrewdly tame it. 

Tongue-Twisted

The thing they don’t get about escapism

                                      is that you’ll eventually have to escape from the stories that leave you

                                          but they cling, you mulch it, and carry it with you

Beatriz Seelaender

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