Congratulations to Bindweed contributor, KJ Hannah Greenberg on her recent poetry and art collection, One Handed Pianist published this month.
KJ Hannah Greenberg’s poem, Soft Reasoning, which appeared in Issue 10 of Bindweed online in May 2020, is included in the collection.
We wish you all the best with your new book!
Until Differentiating becomes Impossible
All hagiographies aside, excessive flattery brings maladroit communication
Whether fish or headless chickens, revelations can cause aimless pondering,
Also,capacious, self-entertaining, or proscribed, mental pleasures (boffolas.)
Some would-be distant ambits bring into existence weird arrays of experience
Otherwise repudiate general sorts: of smiling & nodding, of backlash, of tears,
Both online and face-to-face, while camels carry boxes to sheiks’ desert tents
See, self-reported qualities have limited worth, fail to tickle social media, serve
No solidarity-building soapbox for issues like parenting, gardening, supporting
The Holy Land. Thus, wallabies stay in office, populations grow hungry, again.
However, unconditionally, unequivocally adopting others’ tropes or outlooks
(especially in cases of personal freedoms, monotheism, and general goodness
customarily, reduces “conscience” to laundry cycles bereft of soap’s benefit.)
If ever our system of weighing thoughts, words, and deeds morphs to include
Axiological variables, i.e. values, the world might sit up, shake and roll over.
Moreover, systems integrating beliefs might cease from hiding under the sofa.
KJ Hannah Greenberg’s whimsical writing buds in pastures where gelatinous wildebeests roam and beneath the soil where fey hedgehogs play. She’s been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature, and once for The Best of the Net. Her newest poetry collection is A Grand Sociology Lesson (Lit Fest Press, 2016).
Congratulations to Bindweed contributor, KJ Hannah Greenberg on her recent poetry and paintings collection, Flames and Fire published this month.
KJ Hannah Greenberg has contributed poetry and fiction to Bindweed. More of her writing in back issues can be read here.
We wish you all the best with your new book!
Congratulations to Bindweed contributor, KJ Hannah Greenberg on the publication of her new poetry collection, Rudiments, just launched. Within its collection of 125 pieces are two poems that initially appeared in Bindweed:
“A Fixity of Posture.” Bindweed. Apr. 2019.
“Abetted by a Need to Know.” Bindweed. Jun. 2016.
Soft reasoning, elsewise known as “acrimony’s cousin,” visits special occasions,
Lets loose with random prudence, sends word confetti across most relationships.
Apparently, cognitive summersaults are more than party entertainments, result in
Glory beyond that appointed by children, elderly, or feeble-minded denizens.
It seems, behind every prize rose bush, expertly clipped teacup poodle, also late
Date sports cars, grow cerebral obfuscations unbridled by ratiocination or smarts.
Linear problem solving, usually, jump starts the rise of satrapies, promises cures
For cancer, likewise takes responsibility for all manner of interpersonal remorse.
On balance, timid motivation leaves governments vulnerable, causes schools’
Closure, maybe even aids some gunmen in shooting up juvenile populations.
Hallow associations, after all, notwithstanding the nature of abstract frameworks,
Domain-specific ontologies or related concepts, can’t guarantee world peace,
Marital harmony, fair grades, the end of hunger, best hiring practices, or health.
It’s impossible to summon self-interpretation of important items, at the same time
As asserting, implicitly, that select explanations are off the mark. Folly follows paths
Made by pernicious moose, evil dictators, wayward children, plus grownups’ unproved
Intentions.
Moreover, unripe sentiments confound allies as well as bait foes. It’s better to employ
Language that encourages G-d talk, to embrace good deeds, to avoid, always, frequent
Lèse–majesté. Likewise, our assemblages of mawkishness ought not to recall turbid
Goings-on.
See, no cantrip can ever equal changes in the nature of norms. No matter contemporary
Demographics’ findings, synchronized claims about rules for conducting effective prayer
Remain visceral. No dox, no punity, no screaming atop of staircases ever deterred cruel
Relations.
Note: whereas international saltation proves haptic verities, concurrently, toxic means
Bring about mere “so-called” peace partners, not realities of trust or exchange, not pure
Co-existence. The marketplace of ideas invites sensible “economies,” but holds inflation
Culpable.
Senseless attacks abound. Governments chivvy. Residents complain, would-be heads of
Hypocrisy.
Nonetheless, the posology of peace waits no advection of wisdom’s likely manifestations.
Sexual, physical, or emotional exploitation of “vulnerable others,” children, women, also
Animals, get ruined, in the least, by human bravado, human aggression; hurt, managerial
Recourses.
Consequently, it’s insufficient to dedicate anxiety or gestalt to tintinnabular “accidents.”
Dear ones are worth maintaining. Life necessarily communicates to our guts, foofaraw
Or no, skips linguistic wends that compile words reflecting values back to our innermost
Selves.
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