Tag: poetry
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Two poems for a buck.
Rummaging through the bargain bin at a local second-hand book shop I came across a very cool book of poetry (A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz) for the princely price of $1. And if the poetry were not good enough, the book is full of marginalia. Penciled in comments, underlines, arrows and exclamations…
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A thousand bits of paper.
I’m here to encourage less scrolling through the endless shouting and pointing of social media and more browsing the blogs of people who take time to contemplate and create. Kate is a poet, writer and photographer who lives in Queensland, Australia. This is a post from her blog.
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The balance sheet
Imagine if tomorrow morningEvery single person’s bank account defaulted to exactly one million dollars.USD of course.Imagine the outrage, the joy, the despair, the relief.Everyone stay calm!It’s a technical glitch.A very few would say.We just need to adjust some code and everything will go back the way it should be.But it is not a glitch.And almost…
