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THOUGHTS. WRITINGS. DETRITUS.

The Why of Poetry

May 9, 2025

I sat looking at the faces that had been meeting mine for the past four Saturdays....

In a Divinatory Poetics session, we read together—the poetry of masters, the masterworks of artists who have perfected their craft. We read them slowly—silently, and then aloud. Each individual voice, with its unique cadence and tone, feels its way through the metaphors and imagery, the fields of emotional color.

Then we write; without censorship or second thought, (as much as possible). And finally, we converse, wedding our voices with the language that inspired them. It’s an imaginal journey—and the landscapes we invoke together are so rich they often give me chills.

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In Poetics/Philosophy, Creative Process, Divination, Empowerment Tags creative practice, slow culture, embodiment, inner life, divination, divinatory poetics, creative resistance, media detox, poetics, quiet activism
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Gas Giants and Gravity

January 22, 2019

1000 Jupiters could fit inside of the Sun.  

Last night I discovered the Edge of the Universe series on Netflix. I usually enjoy having my mind blown and oftentimes a good science documentary will do just that. Watching this one, I realized with awe and glee how absolutely inaccurate my roughly collaged concept of planet and star relations was. 

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In Poetics/Philosophy, Creative Process Tags Jupiter, Astrology, Astronomy, DiscoveringPlanets, divination, gravity, orbit, Jupitersorbit
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The Gate Cards

November 9, 2018

The Tarot cards, particularly the 22 Trumps represent a number of familiar and potent archetypes: symbols of human experience that arise again and again across cultures: the old sage, the fool , the emperor-king, the mysterious priestess. The minor cards, otherwise known as ‘pips’ might be said to offer a symbolic view of ordinary human experiences over the course of a lifetime. By way of imagery and symbolism, the cards are a tool capable of drawing together the unconscious/mythologically-oriented mind and the reasoning mind. 

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In Divination, DreamWork/InnerWork Tags tarot, meditation, pathfinding, divination, symbolism, tarotreading, archetypes, gatecards
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Divinatory Poetics

August 22, 2018

Not knowing, waiting and finding — though they may happen accidentally, aren’t accidents. They involve work and research. Not knowing isn’t ignorance. (Fear springs from ignorance.) Not knowing is a permissive and rigorous willingness to trust, leaving knowing in suspension, trusting in possibility without result, regarding as possible all manner of response. The responsibility of the artist […] is the practice of recognizing.
                                                                                                            ~Ann Hamilton

Divinatory Poetics  describes a particular approach to composition: the cultivation of attention, entering in to a sort of lucid trance, experimentation with modes of thinking and angles of perspective.

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In Creative Process, Divination Tags divinatory poetics, mixed media, collage, divination, improvisation, liminality
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Divinatory Poetics: workshops exploring the creative process, (spiritual) practice and the symbolic world.

Preparatory mayhem. Storming the Stockbridge arts fair this weekend. Stockbridge Massachusetts at Bidwell Park. August 20 10-5pm and 21st 10-4pm. 
#artfairs #massart #massachusettsartist #summerart
Order. chaos. The sound of these words… I get a sense of flux, of going wild and splashing color and then honing in with pencil getting in close with lines, scoring lines in crevices and box shapes. I wonder, is chaos a feeling? Not being able
“A Score”
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mixed media/reclaimed wood
$550
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“In the most general sense, it is the very order and harmony of its appearance that distinguishes the art object as an oasis in a disturbingly chaotic world. An
Second floor old Victorian,  shades drawn, three vintage cage fans churning up the sodden air, scraps of tissue paper torn pages feathers swirling like a dust devil on the street corner. Im dripping paint dripping sweat swigging home brew kombucha wa
I’m just really not sure about the so-called edges of objects. I don’t want to re-present what I think I see. I am here to transmit. To let God through my animal body and my human mind and articulate/channel that life/love. 

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