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    A Horny Encounter in the Neighborhood

    Do auspicious omens from a deer encounter extend to the semi-suburbs? I have zilch expertise in gauging their racks, but this 2-, 3- or 4-point young buck showed up recently in my backyard, which butts up against a narrow spit of woods. I got a closer look at him last night upon returning home from an outing ...

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  • Poetry

    ‘Welcome to the Past’

    It is lovely here, this place you call the past, / but which is my present. We meet in the middle, / upon this bridge of words ...

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  • Songs,  Video

    “And we’ll all go together …”

    What to keep an eye upon come what may on the political scene and in our lives: beauty. A one-minute harmonically converged reminder ...

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  • Poetry

    ‘8 Foot Notes from a Dancer’s Diary’

    We prance across the floor & close / the space. Until I see your back to me, those hips, an intoxicating / whiff of shampoo, the outline of your lips, an accidental touch, / matched rhythms, yes, our bodies talking on a wavelength our / minds cannot access ...

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  • Video

    ‘Nathan Brings the Light’

    When a father steps into and then down from the pulpit as his son brings the light and then snuffs it out at the end of a church service, watch for the moment of grace between father and son ..

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  • Poems,  Poetry

    Short Poems & Epigrams for an Autumn Day

    Sometimes, you gotta go short, instead of long. A sampling of short poems and epigrams in advance of an autumnal reading amid the West Virginia trees.

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    Up close with the black-and-white of things

    A small thing, an unconventional view or a dry-as-bone chainlink fence might be just as much an aesthetic encounter with beauty as the theatrical sunset, a tea-rose in all its glory, or a fetching face.

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  • Video

    “Dragon Ramble” by Douglas Eye and The Scribblers

    To finesse and regulate some troubled energy, I fire up a jacked-up classical guitar, get the Garageband Foundry roaring, and hunker down. The result is "Dragon Ramble" by Douglas Eye and The Scribblers.

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  • Essays

    It’s an altar boy thing

    Let's not talk about the moon anymore, but instead Solzhenitsyn's idea of 'political horror,' how to write a 'sorta memoir,' and breaking up with Twitter until the perp walk.

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  • Essays

    ‘The Religion of Want’

    How hard it is to dream, / to dream well. Besieged by / wants, missing what’s not / there. Wanting what we / cannot have, or could, at a / high cost of misery ...

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  • Art

    All we are saying is give boats a chance

    At first, I thought the sign said: "PLEASE WAKE YOUR MIND." Wait, no. It was a message of Buddhist boatfulness, instead.

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  • Essays,  Video

    ‘A Hoeft Marsh Melody’

    Hoeft Marsh in Greenbottom WV is where I get off to when I want to get off the timeline of the world's news. Here's a short musical visit there. It's a little fishy, too.

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  • Essays,  Longform Essays,  Memoir

    “When ‘Frankenstein’ Came to Town”

    “Listen to this!” say Tommy. He shifts the Les Paul to his lower back, rock star-like. “Edgar Winter,” he says, almost reverently. “Johnny’s brother ..."

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  • Poetry

    ‘So Special’

    'I think that I cannot be killed, / that my work is incomplete, / my dreams / not yet completely manifested … / Why do we think this way?'

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  • Essays,  Memoir

    “Stormtroopers & Grandmas”

    The balls of his black pupils stare at me intently, oddly echoed by the round marble of a self-shaved head. Moments later, I have second thoughts about my diplomacy as “Speak English or Die” batters the room.

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TheStoryIsTheThing features poetry, essays, photo-essays & experimental video by writer, editor, multimedia producer, and itinerant musician Douglas John Imbrogno. SUBSCRIBE: thestoryisthething.substack.com | An AmpMediaProject.com production. REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglaseyeATgmail.com

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