HeyJaredMy iambs and I
My actor-love of Shakespeare also feeds my writer-love of blank and formal verse, especially sonnets. I love how the fight for purity between form and content can yield a third, finer, thing. Poet Robert Fitzgerald was a college mentor.
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Fracture (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedFracture Hubris, I guess: unbreakability self-evident—a presence proved by an absence— but only a forgetting, really: Oedipus erasing Laius as a stranger, then entering again that bloody intersection to meet the family… And more hubris here, to dress a household accident in myth to hide the commonplace: another crossing into elderhood; a broken bone beheld as a broken promise; one more startled mortal bitch
Workweek (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Workweek now thursday has almost been another thursday— day 4 packs out, starts feeling over easy while day 5 parks in the dark and kills the radio Thank God It’s Friday and we’re gonna roll gutter balls all the weekend never mind the missed spares and the lucky strikes we’ll cough ourselves all night with when we’re grey— never mind sunday, w
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