Category Archives: Verse

Being In Time

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Jon Awbrey

I need to be in the state I’m in. I need to dwell on the indwelling. I need to unpack the original source, Too long hidebound by habit of force.

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Habitations

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Our reach exceeds our rut and yet We grasp but what we drag into it. Re: Scott Aaronson • A Coronavirus Poem

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So Many Modes Of Mathematical Thought

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

So many modes of mathematical thought, So many are learned, so few are taught. There are streams that flow beneath the sea, There are waves that crash upon the strand, Lateral thoughts that spread and meander — Who knows what … Continue reading →

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Iconoclast

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Jon Awbrey

Things thrown out from a center Cooling signs of a central fire Expiring cinders of life within Sent from a star to start again

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❦ Pyramus & Thisbe ❦

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

It’s all about love And the knots thereof I have known beauty I’ll bring it to you Jon Awbrey • 12 Nov 2014

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grabitational singularity

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

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A Meno Acid

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

What answers to the Meno Paradox Comes in the moment of realizing — Gathering together the building blocks Is just the beginning of the building.

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Providence

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Red-breasted robins and brown-speckled starlings Mobbing the crab-apple tree outside my window, Stretching their necks for the frozen red berries — The snow-sprinkled branches saved them for now. Jon Awbrey 31 Dec 2012

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That Aristotling Town

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

The man’s reputation for dualing exceeds him. It’s a mode more the eyebeam of the beholden. Western wayfarers will claim him their founder, But they founder on the way his meta*physick Straddles the narrow straits of their harbor. Jon Awbrey … Continue reading →

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Landfail

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Adrift on the oceans of memory I touch on an isle of solidity And try to plant my feet — But only push off back to sea.

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