The Sunday Dispatch 3.29.26

“We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.”
- Jim Harrison
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The Sunday Dispatch 3.20.26

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The Sunday Dispatch 3.15.26

“An artist can show thing's that other people are terrified of expressing.”
- Louise Bourgeois
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The Sunday Dispatch 3.8.26

“I didn't come to play it safe.
I came to live like a fucking poem.”
- Ranier Wylde
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The Sunday Dispatch 3.1.26

“The role which the artist plays in society is to revive the primitive, anarchic instincts which have been sacrificed for the illusion of living in comfort.”
- Henry Miller
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The Sunday Dispatch 2.22.26

"An artist's duty, as far as
I'm concerned, is to reflect the times in which they live."
- Nina Simone
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The Sunday Dispatch 2.15.26

“The role which the artist plays in society is to revive the primitive, anarchic instincts which have been sacrificed for the illusion of living in comfort.”
- Henry Miller
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The Sunday Dispatch 2.8.26

“A day of work you dragged yourself thru years ago is now vanished money in your bank account, but a poem that you wrote half alive after work with what little you had left still burns.”
- Darby Hudson
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The Sunday Dispatch 2.1.26

"What I want most now
is art and solitude.”
— Anais Nin
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The Sunday Dispatch 1.25.26

"Anyone who thinks poetry if frivolous has
never needed someone to tell them something unspeakably hard beautifully.”
— Andrea Gibson
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The Sunday Dispatch 1.4.26 [present defense]thought seems a mechanism of malfunctiona means to an infinite endthat triggers a constant dreadof ever moving forward. *[cosmic watts]it is timeto recognize your slumbersuspend yo…

"Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.”
— Linda Pastan
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The Sunday Dispatch 12.14.25 [a deeper emptiness]only in time can the curse of the hours be liftedwhen everything stopsand you finally see the darknessfor the light it has always been. *[breathing room]between the wick and the…

"By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.”
- Joseph Brodsky
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The Sunday Dispatch 12.7.25 [time enough at last]the more i stay awaythe more i know its worththe corners of the roomalive with presenceevery way from the center of the earthno want, no fear of what is missedonly a vast expan…

"There are so many poets whose
poems no one reads”
- Robert Bly
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The Sunday Dispatch 11.30.25 [learning to ride the high]questioning validitywhen not in my usual statefar too accustomed to coasting beneath the radarin the grayest areas of love and lifewayward and weightedrarely, if ever, at…

"The poet lives in the world of language and imagination, love, death & obsession and yet still sees the universe in the smallest of everyday things that we merely take for granted.”
~ R.M. Engelhardt
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The Sunday Dispatch 11.23.25 [return to center]long this life without reasoncycles within cyclesout of step with the natural worldtake back the reignslisten for the symphonybeneath the carnageend the witnessbe both part of and…

"Keep awake, alive, new.
Perform the paradox of being hard and yet
soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes.
Be a poet. Be alive.”
~ Tennessee Williams
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The Sunday Dispatch 11.16.25 [ritual charade]follow no leadbut that of the hearthealing into oneselfto stifle all imitationand break rank from the gathering herdthat rile with contempt prior to investigationmake no bones about…

"The mind of a writer can be a truly
terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul crushing inadequacy.
And that’s on a good day.”
- Robert De Niro
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The Sunday Dispatch 11.9.25 [back to sleep]satiated and contentchoked on the feed of suspect information and questionable sustenancethey have their routines and beliefsfar away from genocide and atrocitytheir small little wor…

"If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”
- Edgar Allan Poe
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The Sunday Dispatch 11.2.25 [mistaken identity]waves of internal chatterbelieved as truespoken in our learned tonguean independent processtermed our inner voicewhen maybe just a non-essential echoof all the useless noisestill…

"Each time I write, I rebuild.
Retrieve what was stolen.”
- Bunkong Tuon
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The Sunday Dispatch 10.26.25 [eternal emergence]secretly swornspoken in tonguesnothing consciously knownwill ever lead us out of the dark ages of thoughtthat have us convincedpeace is a pipe dream.* [a million ways out]no reas…

"Poetry is thoughts that breathe
and words that burn.”
- Thomas Gray
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The Sunday Dispatch 10.19.25 [system failure]hallowed vestiges dreamt to dusteverything crossedand uncrossedsymbols of symptoms lost in translationdemanufactured by zeroes and oneslured back to the infancy of the graveand the …

"The poet is a tree with fruits of sadness and with leaves withered to mourn what he loves.”
- Federico Garcia Lorca,
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The Sunday Dispatch 10.12.25 [used to this]down to the wiremore often than notrent, bills, various bullshitback to zeroback to normalnerves blue and cooly frayed;at least the words always arrive on time.* [nothing blooms]drawn…

""My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one."
- Anne Sexton
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The Sunday Dispatch 10.5.25 [all that is lost]around againthe swing of the macetaking out what’s leftto replace with what is rightno middle any moreonly for and againstcommon ground reduced to rubbleby bloated tyrant’s decree…

"Creation is a man's lonely attempt to fix an intimacy with his own strange and secret soul.”
~ J.M. Murry
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The Sunday Dispatch 9.28.25 [a precarious comfort] ever leaning towardthe anticipation of dreadupon long roads of eggshellsand tightropesi used to think i was just wired wrongbut the more accustomed i’ve become to this worldt…

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little"
~ Tom Stoppard
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The Sunday Dispatch 9.21.25 [presence out of time]no defining momentonly all as isa perpetual continuum of stasisvoid of parametersindependent of independenceneither above the highest groundnor beneath the deepest graveoutsid…

"poetry is not an opinion expressed. it is a song that rises from bleeding wound or a smiling mouth. "
~ kahlil gibran
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The Sunday Dispatch 9.14.25 [everything in time]too many memories haunting the heartall the beautiful ghosts in their bright blue sadnesssinging my sorrowslike a symphony for the damned.* [late evening train]apparency echoest…

"Poetry is your heart
having a conversation
with your soul.”
- S.M. Klees
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