Jeanne Johansen
A FEW WORDS ON INVASIONS ON THE IMAGINATION
An 11th century book called Lebor Gabala Erin, or The Book of Invasions, attempts to explain the origins of the Irish people. From a...
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Reyn Kinzey - Poet
Jeanne Johansen
- Oct 30, 2023
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON DAY OF THE DEAD
By the time I was 35 both my parents and my best friend were dead. Death is sadly all around us. During the pandemic, I lost two more...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Oct 28, 2023
- 1 min
A FEW WORDS ON REDEMPTION SONGS
Driving in Ireland can be a bit of a challenge, although I’ve always enjoyed it. Staying to the left is no problem, because the driver’s...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Oct 21, 2023
- 1 min
A FEW WORDS ON THIN PLACES
In Evangeline Walton’s imaginative retelling of the Welsh Mabinogion, Pwyll, Prince of Dyved, meets Annwnn, the Prince of Death. Through...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Oct 14, 2023
- 2 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON DOLPHINS
It’s not unusual to see dolphins in the Ware River, about a 20-minute paddle from where we put in on Wilson Creek. The Ware empties into...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Oct 6, 2023
- 2 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
In the movie 1492, Christopher Columbus’s son Diego comments that his father would often wistfully say, “if only I could get beyond the...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Oct 1, 2023
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON AFTER OUR EXILE
Well, it doesn’t read like James Joyce. It’s not meant to read like James Joyce. But ultimately, After Our Exile comes from the same...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Sep 29, 2023
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON SAINT THOMAS SYNAGOGUE
Friends from the North – particularly Jewish friends – are often surprised that I grew up in a Richmond, Virginia that is home to a large...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Sep 29, 2023
- 1 min
A Very Few Words on Easter
Easter once again has me thinking of Dragon Run, the cypress swamp that marks the boundaries of Gloucester and Middlesex Counties. I’ve...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Sep 15, 2023
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON HOME
I was not a happy child. In retrospect, I’m not sure why. I had good and loving parents. With my grandmother and her eccentric siblings...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Sep 9, 2023
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON PALACE OF WISDOM
I think I commented earlier that sometimes with wind and rain even the main channel of Wilson Creek becomes too choppy to enjoy, so we...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Sep 1, 2023
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ABOUT TRIDUUM
In the Roman Catholic tradition, ‘triduum” refers to the three central days of Easter: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter itself,...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Aug 25, 2023
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON WINTER FULL
Like it or not, the calendar has a way of sneaking up on us. I wrote this poem during advent in 2008. You can prepare for advent or not,...
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Jeanne Johansen
- Aug 18, 2023
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON MIRROR TO NATURE
Sometimes, with wind and rain, even the main channel of Wilson Creek gets too choppy to enjoy. On those days, we often tuck into the...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Aug 11, 2023
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON VICKSBURG’S FALLING
I wrote Vicksburg’s Falling on July 5, 2008, the day after the July 4 celebrations I didn’t attend. I would be just as happy if this were...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Aug 1, 2023
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON MEMORY OF EAGLES
Here are a very few words on how to achieve a transcendental experience in nature. First, get yourself alone on the water or mountain or...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jul 24, 2023
- 2 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON MADDIE IN THE RAINAND MADDIE REDUX
Maddie in the Rain is the first of several Easter poems in Chasing the Dragon, but you might not realize that if you don’t know Latin....
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jul 16, 2023
- 2 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON THE TIDES AT GLOUCESTER
The Tides at Gloucester is a pivotal poem for me. It marks the moment that I realized, city person as I remain, it’s the world of river,...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jul 5, 2023
- 1 min
A VERY FEW WORDS ON THE DELAY OF EAGLES
We all want happy endings. In literature, we demand happy endings. Think of the ending of Lord of the Rings. Frodo and Sam trapped on a...
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Reyn Kinzey
- Jun 18, 2023
- 2 min
A FEW WORDS ON THE PARADOX
I always try to tell stories with my poems, and for the most part, I try to keep abstraction to a minimal and stick to concrete, sensual...
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