Traipse

To walk or tramp about; to gad, wander. < Old French - trapasser (to trespass).

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Cemetery Poetry: The Place Where They Sleep

Aug 27, 2022
You can’t traipse very long on this mortal coil before encountering end-of-life truths.  A friend in Atlanta, in the Delta Airlines master operations room on 9-11, tells with restrained panache her version of such an encounter.  Driving blithely about town one day, she came to a familiar intersection marked by a traffic light (robot).  Since […]

Cemetery Poetry: The Place Where They Sleep

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You can’t traipse very long on this mortal coil before encountering end-of-life truths.  A friend in Atlanta, in the Delta Airlines master operations room on 9-11, tells with restrained panache her version of such an encounter.  Driving blithely about town one day, she came to a familiar intersection marked by a traffic light (robot).  Since […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

Pebble On The Tongue*: The House of Tears

May 28, 2022
Every language has some register of expression at which it excels.  These powers tell a great deal about the social history of each community: its origins, the tenor of its story, even its physical context and values.  Languages of the global South often have unusual capacities for commiseration; this from deep experience in struggles for […]

Pebble On The Tongue*: The House of Tears

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Every language has some register of expression at which it excels.  These powers tell a great deal about the social history of each community: its origins, the tenor of its story, even its physical context and values.  Languages of the global South often have unusual capacities for commiseration; this from deep experience in struggles for […]

Written by Jonathan Larson

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