Tag: prose
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On Attention: Vale Ellen Bryant Voigt
“Ruthless attention,” Voigt called it — the discipline to see what is there and what is not. Whether describing a difficult scene or a troubling interior state, she believed accuracy itself could be an ethics.
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Field Notes between Storms
If you enjoyed ‘After the Storm’, you might like Day-Possum, Morning River Notes, or A Tiny Deity. They all involve observation and a positive emotional turn. Here’s something I wrote as a craft exercise: a poem in two sentences. … Goanna This afternoon, a goanna ambled toward me, tongue tasting the air between us—all the…
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From the notebook: Oars
Hi all, just a little announcement: counter/field has a new posting schedule. Poems will be posted weekly On wednesdays at 10pm AEST. On Saturdays at 10am AEST, I’ll do a feature post and maybe an update. The update this week is that the blog is doing very well, and that I’m going to try to…
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Deep Blue Sky
A reflective flash piece: childhood friendship, betrayal, and a blue sky that lingers long after the moment.
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On Saturday
An observational prose poem: early run by the river, ferries, rowers, birds, and the city slowly waking.