Author Archives: Greg Wright

The Revenant

Hugh Glass lay in a shallow grave as much to keep his body warm as quicken interment of his corpse—

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“Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18”

after a performance by Awadagin Pratt He is a left-handed player in a right-handed world reading charts, away from left and toward the right, underscored by right-brained, right-handed composers. Even the baton which conducts is clutched in the right.

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Radical Leap of a Waking Mind

Curious is the fact that a sleeping being is altogether aware yet elects to ignore the waking world

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I Shall Also Remember

those who vow to never forget The Trail of Tears Antietam Sharpsburg Sand Creek The Little Bighorn

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And Then I Had a Stranger Dream

(With No Apologies to Ed McCurdy, nor to Pete Seeger, nor Simon and Garfunkle, &c.) Last night I had the strangest dream      I ever dreamed before I dreamed the world had all agreed      to put an end to war

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Lines from a STUDENT

Say it, man. Spell it out. Admit That your calculate words, woven Under and about this captive Doting audience have multiplied—

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Lines to a STUDENT

Study but solely me; play The part that binds you Until you must capitulate, Dreams to be relinquished,

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Finders, Seekers

Groping blindly at an upper shelf I tossed a box of unclean washers upon my concrete workroom floor. They scattered to the four corners.

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Progressives

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Emendment

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the rights of the people to keep and bear arms of the people to keep and bear harms of the people to keep and fear harms shall … Continue reading

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