Some works from Calef Brown’s suite of poems in which the first words or lines are from traditional nursery rhymes, then they go off in different directions. Beautifully illustrated by Leo Espinosa.
Nursery Rhyme DETOURS
August Issue, 2024
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Taigu Ryōkan: You Do Not Need Many Things
“Why are you acting like such a fool?”
I nod my head and don’t answer.
I could say something, but why?
Do you want to know what’s in my heart?
From the beginning of time: just this! just this!
Ibn ‘Arabi and Sufism, a way of reading Islamic architecture
That origin can be represented in no other way than through geometry, which is the primordial measure by which all visible forms are composed. Abstraction is the most faithful and evocative way to imagine the divine essence that makes up the world.
Blossom Drunk: Spring Poems from Basho
Some thoughts on Basho’s spring poems, writings, and journeys, from Arthur Davis.
May Issue, 2024
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April Issue, 2024
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My Shadow is Freezing: Winter Poems from Matsuo Basho
these cold winter days
on horseback
— my shadow is frozen
Letter From the Editor November, 2023: Crickets
A cricket sings in my brambling dying herbs every autumn, tangled with the unruly thyme and the ever-flowering chives. I’ve never seen it but I look forward to its return every year […]
Crow and Cricket: Two Autumn Poems from Matsuo Basho
Some thoughts on two autumn poems from Matsuo Basho
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