A VERY FEW WORDS ON PERHAPS I’LL BUILD WITH WORDS
It’s easy to see my mother in me. We loved the same things: literature, Latin, theater – perhaps most of all theater: we’d go to local...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Mar 25
- 3 min
A FEW WORDS ON A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM
In 1970, at the age of 18, I was poised for my fifteen minutes of literary fame, if only my English professor had listened to me. We were...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Mar 14
- 2 min
A Few Words On Quickening The Pace
When I was younger, I used to ride, and I can attest to the fact that even the most sluggish horse will quicken the pace once he realizes...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Feb 13
- 2 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ABOUT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH
Okay, this isn’t going to be easy to write, and, if you’ve lost someone you love, it might not be easy to read. My mother died over 30...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jan 25
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON ESCAPING GRACEFULLY
I think I meant this poem to be as simple as a country song. God bless the Dixie Chicks or whatever they now call themselves. But there’s...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jan 19
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON WORLD WITHOUT END
How can I explain my grandmother to the world? Her name was Marion Reynolds Lawton, but we all called her Ba. Why, I have no idea, but it...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jan 9
- 2 min
A Few Words On Voices
I think I said at the very beginning of this enterprise that, like all writers, I write for myself. As I said last time “poetry makes...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Dec 10, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON POETS AND POETRY
I don’t think Patrick Kavanaugh is much known outside of Ireland, and that’s fair enough for a poet who declared that the proper world...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Nov 26, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON THE FASHIONOF THE WORLD
Dublin, to put it mildly, has changed over the last 50 years. The view of Grafton Street continues to shift. The big changes came in the...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
A Few Words on Once Upon a Time
At 17, I went off to University, in my case, the University of Virginia, which was a good choice for me. However, in 1969, UVA was still...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON SENDING NAMES TO ABYDOS
My aunt, my father’s only sister, lived her adult life in the wilderness of Orange, California, on the border with Anaheim, not far from...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Aug 10, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON SURFING ABOVE CHOO-CHOO
Surfing above Cho-choo is a continuation of Half-Time on the River, which is to say a continuation of my evolution from rugby player to...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jul 21, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON WALKING THE WALLS
Derry, Ireland, is a town I could love so well. But we’ve had our ups and downs. The first time I entered the six counties of Ireland...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jul 5, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON FIFTY GOOD MEN IN SODOM
Sometimes art and real life collide, and sometimes the results aren’t pretty. It was on my schedule to write something about Fifty Good...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jun 20, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON BOTTOM’S DREAM
Okay, the erect nipple is there to get your attention. But the sex scene has its serious side as well (remember, we’re invoking...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jun 11, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON BROTHER TO DRAGONS
I grew up in the American South, and all my adult life I’ve lived in a brick house. Brick hides our secrets in the South, but I’ll let...
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Reyn Kinzey
- May 30, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON SEA LIONS BARKING AT THE BAY CLUB
The first two stanzas are pretty much a literal presentation of a night in San Diego, one of my favorite cities in the U.S. Becky and I...
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Reyn Kinzey
- May 17, 2022
- 3 min
A FEW WORDS ON GENTLE RAIN OF HEAVEN
If you read my last blog, you know that I use Shakespeare to invoke serious matters, while I use Dylan for more playful purposes. Well,...
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Reyn Kinzey
- May 3, 2022
- 3 min
A FEW WORDS ABOUT I’M ONLY BLEEDING
Well, of course, the title is from Bob Dylan. I’m a child of the 60’s, and generally I use Dylan in a playful way, since I have so many...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Apr 25, 2022
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON HALF-TIME ON THE RIVER
I still want to maintain that anyone can read any of these poems as he or she wants, but for me, Half-time on the River is one man’s...
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