A Catographer, I Considered (prose poem)
A Cartographer, I Considered Spectacled, heavy on a rosy face, hidden among stacks, drawing inventions of maps – delineating frontiers […]
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Personal Musings
Diary: Cartography, Poetry and Bus Rides
Re: Amateur Cartography Over the wall to seitai treatment (as such, obligatory bus stop snappie for evidence) with The Weakerthans
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“Thunderstorms in the Crash Years” – audio story about #MECFS & #Fibro
Amidst a thunderstorm at 4AM on a balcony in Chiang Mai, Dave discusses – with excessive frankness and emotion
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Jack Kerouac Exhibit in Kobe: books, typewriters, vibes
“On The Road” – Learn about Jack Kerouac’s classic novel in Kobe, Japan from July 3 to August 8. This
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Quote: “A poet makes himself a visionary” Rimbaud
“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of
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Diary: mixed-media card, steps forward with projects (and tea)
+ Paints, Posts, Poems + (with tea) Construction underway, the elusive and complicated “operation turtle” {requiring lawyers & money but
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Memo: all the mediums, all at once, any time
Painting, Letter writing, Collage, Podcasting, all at once. Totally usual behaviour right? Stories are stories – the important this is
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Postbox Haiku Painting exhibit artifacts from the Goat Farm
+ Postbox Haiku Exhibit at the Goat Farm: In which I combine love of poetry, painting and postal mail and
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Japan Cottage Musings
Postbox Haiku and Paintings – Japan Cottage Musings
Rocking a plaid track suit, Dave catches up about an exhibit of postbox haiku and paintings at pal Mac Kobayashi’s
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Kinfolk + Pals
“The Wish” / poem by Sohaib “Sooby” Ahmed
My renegade pal Sooby (Sohaib) Ahmed is a fine poet in the “romantic” tradition (think Shelley, Keats et al) and
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Annotations: Regarding Japanese-inspired Poetry
Consider the words Write them once, only – In a single inky sweep On tactile paper Then add a flower
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Shoebox
Poem: post office closed (again)
Post office closed (again) You’ll need another day to know you are loved by a lost poet without a watch
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Chapbooks, Fanzines & Folios, Stubbed Toe
Folio: Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe / occasional haiku, 2004
Download poetry chapbook (pdf): Hotsprings + Stubbed Toe, by Dave Olson, 2004
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Chapbooks, Fanzines & Folios, Stubbed Toe
Folio: January in the Hot Springs / haiku and paint, 1993-5
After arriving in Japan for the first time, i began exploring Japanese poetic forms – realizing that the didactic 5-7-5
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Parties + Events + Invites
Poster: Farmer Weed reads at Blowfish concert / Logan (Utah), ca. 1992
No Restrooms, No Alcohol, All Ages, $5, 3 bands.
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Shoebox
Poem: Earliest Recollections (Lansing, MI, 1973 with tornado)
Lansing Michigan, 1973 eating macaroni & cheese in a damp basement while adults whispered windows shivered radio crackled and i
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