Tag: Rembrandt

• exhausted seltzer

  Ran across this square in one of R.O. Kwon’s tweets (her novel The Incendiaries is dope, btw!!!) and due to the moment time of time I came across it, “exhausted seltzer” is what you can call me. In true poet luck, I’m charmed by the combination of words. I mean, seltzer when exhausted is flat,…

  José Angel Araguz

  October 16, 2020

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• * some words from Ram Dass & the friday influence

  This week on the Influence: some words from world renown American spiritual teacher Ram Dass! But first, a confession: there isn’t much that I read – be it novels, essays, cereal boxes, texts, etc. – that doesn’t get filtered through my how-does-can-this-relate-to-poetry filter.  I read everything with eyes looking for a symbol, a metaphor, or simply…

  José Angel Araguz

  February 1, 2013

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