Revisionist Poetry – “Basement Sun” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.3

Basement: damp breath of plaster and turpentine.A lamp pools like a small sun over a half-face—a mouth not yet finished, a jaw undecided.He works until the light invents patience. There’s a calendar pinned above the sink,the months crossed out with cigarette ash.Ideas gather in a cardboard box —old ticket stubs, a hand-scrawled compliment, a smear of cadmium red.

http://renminds.org/2026/03/19/revisionist-poetry-basement-sun-grand-displays-of-imagination-v-3/

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's late play is at once a fairy-tale romance, a metaphysical meditation on art and illusion, and one of his most unsettling examinations of power and possession. Its small cast and island setting concentrate moral conflicts into a tight theatrical laboratory: Prospero’s rulership through books and spirits; Ariel’s airy service; Caliban’s earthy resistance; and the young lovers’ idyll.…

http://renminds.org/2026/03/19/the-adaptable-educators-book-review-the-tempest-by-william-shakespeare/

Revisionist Poetry – “The Locksmith’s Lamp” – Grand Displays of Imagination, v.2

In the basement’s single bulb—olive light—He oils a stubborn canvas till it hums;A moth keeps time against the lampshade’s white,His brush translates the hush of absent drums. He paints a woman who will never leave,A mouth half-open, caught between a song;The floorboards keep each night’s small, private grieve,A stack of postcards—unsent proofs of wrong.

http://renminds.org/2026/03/18/revisionist-poetry-the-locksmiths-lamp-grand-displays-of-imagination-v-2/

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s comic fantasia remains, more than four centuries after its first performances, a small universe where love, language, and theatricality chase one another in circles until witty chaos becomes a kind of logic. In this review I treat the play both as a tightly engineered comic machine and as an example of poetic imagination that deliberately trades fixed meaning for the…

http://renminds.org/2026/03/18/the-adaptable-educators-book-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-by-william-shakespeare/

Revisionist Poetry – “Hymn of the Heap” – Beautiful Detritus, v.4 (Dylanesque)

Winter loosens its grip on the gate,lets the snow slide off like a bad alibi.The ground coughs up its old confessions—knotted string, a split glove, last year’s lie. There’s a tangle of jute in the belly of the bed,leaf bones rattling their thin, dry prayer,a rusted hook humming to the worms,like it still remembers holding something fair.

http://renminds.org/2026/03/17/revisionist-poetry-hymn-of-the-heap-beautiful-detritus-v-4-dylanesque/

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew is one of those plays that refuses the neat categories critics try to pin on it: at once a farce, a satire of social performance, and an uncomfortable meditation on marriage and power. The play’s comic machinery is brilliant — quick-paced plotting, disguise and mistaken identity, witty repartee — but that brilliance sits uneasily beside scenes that, to modern…

http://renminds.org/2026/03/17/the-adaptable-educators-book-review-the-taming-of-the-shrew-by-william-shakespeare/

Revisionist Poetry – “The Garden’s Leftovers” – Beautiful Detritus, v.3 (a touch more wabi-sabi)

When thaw begins, the garden exhales—thin ice lifting from the hollow of the beds.Beneath: torn burlap, rust-kissed wire, one pale glovegone to the soft apprenticeship of soil. These are the beautiful terms of loss:string looped like an old promise, leaf veins like maps.Frost has taught everything how to fracture well.Time stitches rag to root; the ruined becomes usable.

http://renminds.org/2026/03/16/revisionist-poetry-the-gardens-leftovers-beautiful-detritus-v-3-a-touch-more-wabi-sabi/

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s work here reads like a distilled drama of human contradiction: love and violence, chance and design, speech that soars and action that wounds. This play—set in Verona—remains instructive not because it tells us something entirely new about passion, but because it shows, with rare intensity and compression, how quickly language can conjure a world and how quickly that world can…

http://renminds.org/2026/03/16/the-adaptable-educators-book-review-romeo-and-juliet-by-william-shakespeare/

Revisionist Poetry – “Spring in Rags” – Beautiful Detritus, v.2

At winter’s end the thaw unfurls—snow sighs away, exposing mud:brown earth, matted jute, a coil of string,a seed packet emptied of its promise. The gardener’s tools—glove, snapped stake—lie like punctuation across the beds.Rain knits the ravelled twine to root;wind braids leaves into a new script. What was discarded reads as pattern:stalks turned brushstroke, burlap turned cloth.

http://renminds.org/2026/03/15/revisionist-poetry-spring-in-rags-beautiful-detritus-v-2/

The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s political tragedy is a compact, muscular probe into power, persuasion, and the moral costs of republican action. Read as a study of rhetoric and of the fragile psychology of honour, Julius Caesar refuses simple partisanship: it makes conspirators, orators, and crowds all culpable in a spiralling sequence whose logic is both inevitable and tragic. On form and pace The play is…

http://renminds.org/2026/03/15/the-adaptable-educators-book-review-julius-caesar-by-william-shakespeare/