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12/11/2023

It is in an interview with Knausgaard that I first hear mentioned Fosse. Both are Norwegian writers and, what is more, Knausgaard was Fosse's student. Then, not too long ago, I hear Fosse mentioned again, this time as winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023. The Academy chose him "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."...

It is in an interview with Knausgaard that I first hear mentioned Fosse. Both are Norwegian writers and, what is more, Knausgaard was Fosse’s student. Then, not too long ago, I hear Fosse men…

05/14/2023

Has he ever, for a second, known what he is doing?Sadly, regrettably, no.Why not pour some bleach onto the foul dish brush?And why not pour some hydrogen peroxide on the foul dish brush, too?And this is how he makes his home toxic.Scentless fumes fill his family's kitchen.But he is convinced everything is okay even though he doesn't know....

Has he ever, for a second, known what he is doing?Sadly, regrettably, no.Why not pour some bleach onto the foul dish brush?And why not pour some hydrogen peroxide on the foul dish brush, too?And th…

12/30/2022

Something has obstructed my writerly gear for a long time. I don't remember how long which is why I feel justified in saying "long" in this case. That's not to say I haven't tried pulling something out of nowhere. Already I fear my writerly gear is stuck. WD-40 may do this trick. There. I drank some. Just a sq**rt to get this lubricated, take away the squeak....

Something has obstructed my writerly gear for a long time. I don’t remember how long which is why I feel justified in saying “long” in this case. That’s not to say I haven& #…

07/28/2022

Nowhere is this dichotomy more noticeable than in connection with the use of the land. The farmer is considered simply as a producer who must cut his costs and raise his efficiency by every possible device, even if he thereby destroys -- for man-as-consumer -- the health of the soil and the beauty of the landscape, and even if the end effect is the depopulation of the land and the overcrowding of cities....

Nowhere is this dichotomy more noticeable than in connection with the use of the land. The farmer is considered simply as a producer who must cut his costs and raise his efficiency by every possibl…

05/10/2021

New poem on TOE by Mitchell Anne Hagerstrom.

In physics, what’s called Escape Velocity Is necessary for leaving earth’s gravity. My dying mother asked for ostrich-skin boots, Proper footwear in Texas for making tracks. My father escaped in a …

08/31/2020

It was not hunger that compelled the cat to hunt. Still, she stalked each possible prey with purpose and skill, strolling past many, before discovering a worthy hunt, focused her eyes, twitched her…

03/09/2020

Repeat say red yellow Red and yellow Brown black and white We all previous In God's sight Everybody matters Everybody in Nobody out Everybody in Nobody out Everybody in healthcare Nobody out Everybody in healthcare Nobody out Everybody in good education Nobody out Everybody in a decent livable wage Nobody out An environment in which we can breath Nobody out… [ 136 more words ]

Repeat say red yellow Red and yellow Brown black and white We all previous In God’s sight Everybody matters Everybody in Nobody out Everybody in Nobody out Everybody in healthcare Nobody out …

09/25/2019

New on The Open End :: Sun No Longer in Aries, a poem by Lisa Mann

As the earth turned and the stars fell into the canyonthe night captured what little fire remainedthe glow from the stars growing dim, the light in your eyes disappearing As you led the horses thro…

03/26/2019

New on TOE :: When You're Praying, Don't F**k Around by Connor Coyne

My novel Urbantasm started with hunger. Not mine. In 1995, when my 13-year-old best friend took a job two buses away across Flint at the computer store where …

12/08/2018

New on TOE :: Assignments

Your assignment will demand that you squeeze into the costume selected for you and they will call you boy or girl. Forget the two-spirit sacred being. Never mind what the heart knows or the mouth r…

11/24/2018

New chapbook review on TheOpenEnd

*I started this review of Dom’s poetry chapbook before Donald Trump’s Election as President of the USA. Part I is before, and Part 2 is after.*** Part I – Before – during Obama’s term. Reading Dom …

11/08/2018

New on TOE :: November

  November drags its chilly nights through shifting sand calls out the bones we buried long ago recalls each marker as it goes the angle of the light against the stone You linger there too lon…