http://cross-concept.net In pursuit of the Logos Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:33:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now in the style of James Joyce, for English 306 Hope you enjoy :-) John laid out fork, knife, knife, fork, glass behind the plate, napkin on top, muted clacks on white cloth matching the muted rhythm of his hands. Years of setting silverware had made him fluid and his hands flowed ... http://cross-concept.net/fish/ My government professor talked about this study today. I tried to remember the best I could, but I might be off on a detail or two. I'm going to ask him for the source next class. This survey was recently given to 900 randomly selected American citizens: 1) If the ... http://cross-concept.net/our-rights/ Current mood: tired I started this months before finishing it. Long gaps when writing remind me of the danger of letting things sit - especially poetry. It's helpful to get some distance from the work, but situations and even people change amazingly quickly. It's hard to ... http://cross-concept.net/unity-vs-distance/ Current mood: calm There is a sweet and solemn place away up in the canyon along the ridge's southern face where the redroot's blooming. The air is hot and hazy thick with the smell of summer, the grass is ripe and sweet to pick in gold and green and amber. The insects murmer high and light a humming and ... http://cross-concept.net/colby-trail-in-summer/ The morning sweat and rising breath of oceans, rivers, lakes, is drawn and packed against the upper edge of air and space. The sky bends under compounded weight of wind and cloud; the atmosphere beneath, compressed and buckling, cracks, crazing up the middle, hot from the folding, light showing through the back. Again from creative writting http://cross-concept.net/lightning/ Found this half done in a notebook. Often when I come back to things they seem mehh but this was ok. The danger in waiting to finish is that style inevitably changes - it's pretty obvious which stanzas are new. Distance is good, but not too much.. She sits ... http://cross-concept.net/a-not-tame-bird/ I've posted the intro to this before, but don't browse away if you've already read it - I finally finished the thing and theres a lot more now. I polished that intro for over a year and it seemed almost to good to use, but I had a midterm project ... http://cross-concept.net/new-fiction/ I love the 4th. In some of my earliest memories I'm waving sparklers on my grandparents' lawn - watching liquid fire drip off the tip onto the grass; white smoke, nostrils full of sulfer.. Fireworks are threaded through my life, and they have never changed for me. ... http://cross-concept.net/fireworks-again/ Today I found myself erasing a used scantron sheet because I didn't have 5 cents to buy a new one..  Is that the epitome of the broke college student or what? http://cross-concept.net/scantrons/ You might first want to google "Old Hag Syndrome" to get some perspective on what I'll be talking about - there's a wealth of information on the net.. I decided to write about this because it happened to me recently. In fact, it's something I've consistently experienced much of my ... http://cross-concept.net/old-hag/