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    VIDEO/NOTEBOOK: Byways, Highways & One Notable Ceiling in West Virginia

    Take a musical sojourn along along West Virginia's byways, highways and roads less traveled, during the months of May/June 2022. Plus. one to-die-for ceiling in the state's capital city.

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  • Essays

    VIDEO/POEM: What happens to “All These Pages”

    As a writer, purveyor, and publisher of creative works, I am constantly wrestling with my ego’s desire to see such work as of lasting significance, a hedge against my own mortality. Yet such works, too, will soon pass on by and melt away, swallowed by the river of time. Here’s a video-poem about that.

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  • Essays,  Poetry,  Video

    VIDEO: “The Green, Green Hills of Earth” and who it’s for

    When the azaleas burst into bloom around a Buddha given me by a dear, departed, harmonic soulmate, it was time to set her memorial song to imagery of the green, green hills of Earthh ...

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  • Poetry

    ‘When you are struggling in your writing (art) …”

    What does it mean when you are you struggling and wrestling with your writing or art? Nayyirah Waheed sums up.

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  • Poems

    Killer on the Loose

    My beard is trimmed close to the flesh, so the strong coffee barely touches my mustache, leaving a scent of dark chocolate and turned soil. / I have never learned to tell the truth, dressing instead in these words for a passeggiatta in the cool September sun.

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  • Memoir,  Photo Essay,  Poetry

    ‘What Does the Past Look Like?’

    A more Catholic grade school name you could / not conjure — Our Lady of the Rosary. Where, on a / bright Saturday afternoon, I'm surprised to find / an orange traffic cone propping open a first-floor / door. And so, as one will do when invited by the / cosmos to stroll the hallways where you once / walked a half-century gone, I walk in.

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  • Essays

    QUEEN CITY CHRONICLE 1: Seeing Red Downtown

    When the Opening Day parade for the Cincinnati Reds 2022 season snaked through downtown Cincinnati more was going on than it might at first seem.

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  • Essays,  Poems,  Video

    VIDEO/POEM: ‘The Difference Is’

    There is a difference / between people who do things / and people who don't ...

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  • Essays,  Poems

    “RUN-ON SENTENCE: At 47”

    I am 47, the day is Jan. 2, the year is 2005, / my beard is stained white in several places, / my son is 14, my girl 10, my (borrowed neighborhood) / cat is named Mister Puzzlesocks, / my favorite red wine of the moment is / Trinchero Cabernet, my car is a white ’93 …

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  • Poems

    Dirt & Bourbon

    My ink-stained hands hear the/ sound of the railroad, another train / passing through my town, here/ at the middle of nowhere &/ everything. I am ready to burst/ open like a cherry tomato/ between your teeth …

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  • Essays,  Poems

    POEM: In Need of Saying

    I am on a porch, captain/ of a green ocean. Wasps patrol / the boundary lands. In whispering winds, conversing / in high tulip poplars, I hear / poems from another tongue …

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  • Essays

    SONG: “Appalachian Round”

    The song "Appalachian Round" is one of the prettiest, most evocative group songs in the English language. Here is a 2009 four-part harmony version a bunch of fellow travelers and I recorded down in Princeton, WV.

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  • Poems

    TIME FOR A POEM, No. 1

    Do not deny the urge, do/ not let the chance for a poem/ pass you by. It’s OK, it’s wholesome / and nutritious, go ahead …

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  • Poems

    POEM: “Unfamous”

    I decide to be famous / only to myself. It is / so much easier and my / tender, so lightly bruised / ego now thanks me for this / demilitarized zone …

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  • Poems,  Poetry,  Video

    VIDEO/POEM: “Something for Nothing”

    I want to see / if it is possible / to be a nobody / from nowhere. / Creating something / out of nothing …

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Welcome to The StoryIsTheThing, featuring poetry, essays, photo-essays, video & more. The site is a production of writer, editor, multimedia producer, and itinerant musician Douglas John Imbrogno. Its companion site is AmpMediaProject.com, where we do all the heavy lifting of moving pixels around. REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com

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