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Corbin Allardice
Nov 2, 20221 min read
Hipsters - Moyshe Nadir
hipsters* they sit in pairs and throuples. and chatter, chatter, chatter. sadness sits between them. and looks them in the eye. they sit...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 2, 20221 min read
Ingathering of Miseries - Moyshe Nadir
Homeless pains wandered through me, unable to find the place where they belong. Miseries without a fatherland or home. They dragged...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 2, 20221 min read
Canine Love - Moyshe Nadir
That which I endeavor to tell here is barely suitable to be printed. We went for a stroll, my hound and I. He is so faithful and thinks...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 2, 20221 min read
Still, Life - Moyshe Nadir
“In life,” a jug has a handle. So that you can hold it when you go draw water. But in the image, on the painted jug, you don’t need a...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 2, 20221 min read
The Landlord of Dirt - Moyshe Nadir
Should I take strange worms and offer them the apples on my apple tree to eat? Of course not. Should I allow them to build a nest in my...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 2, 20221 min read
For Example - Moyshe Nadir
For example. What if a person stood in one spot, growing into the earth like a tree, and milling about with the fields of rye and wheat,...
Corbin Allardice
Nov 2, 20221 min read
On Speaking - Moyshe Nadir
The point is not the word, but where it is spoken. When I say a word on the mountaintop that I have said in the valley, it is not the...
Corbin Allardice
Oct 31, 20221 min read
Thus Spake an Artist, a Greenwich Villager - Moyshe Nadir
Thus Spake an Artist, a Greenwich Villager I have. I have in my home. I have in my home an old violin which cannot be played for it has...
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