It’s All One Thing #90: Burning Mississippi Whispers to Love Story in 2009
James Van Looy and his weekly offering of poetry, history, politics and sometimes even song.
It’s All One Thing #89: Just One Car, Just One Path
James Van Looy and his weekly offering of poetry, history, politics and sometimes even song.
It’s All One Thing #88: Labyrinth as Pulling from the Heart
James Van Looy and his weekly offering of poetry, history, politics and sometimes even song.
It’s All One Thing #86: This Is Our Guernica
James Van Looy and his weekly offering of poetry, history, politics and sometimes even song.
It’s All One Thing #85: Labyrinth as City
James Van Looy and his weekly offering of poetry, history, politics and sometimes even song.
It’s All One Thing #84: Mom
James Van Looy and his weekly offering of poetry, history, politics and sometimes even song.
It’s All One Thing #79: Danny Boy’s Answer
James Van Looy and his weekly offering of poetry, history, politics and sometimes even song.
Poem by Richard Higham
Artwork by DJ Barry.
It’s All One Thing #78: May Day: The Silent Generation
James Van Looy and his weekly offering of poetry, history, politics and sometimes even song.
It’s All One Thing #77: Hippies
Check out this weeks It's all One Thing, where the one thing that matters most is the truth.
It’s All One Thing #76: The Death of Adze-Man and Exile of Cleopatra
Together we put together the chain of causality that led from digging construction ditches in old Boston Bean Town to an airfield in the Philippines that could land heavy American [...]
It’s All One Thing #75: Labyrinth as Maze Solving Slime Mold
And what are any of us, finally, basically, structurally but mouths that have grown eyes, noses, and ears in order to better negotiate this labyrinth world and find the many [...]
It’s All One Thing #74: Testosterone Flats
I wake up from Testosterone Flats where I have been male bonding with the Evangelicals who are mobbed together gone to the mattresses in a ramshackle trailer as they hold [...]
It’s All One Thing #73: SSpSprSpring ’95
This year Spring unfurled like a delayed leaf in excruciating slowness until it was certain Summer truly had abdicated and would never come to slather the crisp cool mornings with [...]
It’s All One Thing #72: Earnest, Earnest on the Importance of Being Earnest
On the way to meet my visiting brothers I come up out of the underground into the late Spring bright green and there he is looking at himself in the [...]
It’s All One Thing #71: Humming Labyrinth
humm, hum, hum, hum humm, hum, hum, hum even the least of these can make the sound that creates the whole world and all that is in it if you [...]
It’s All One Thing #70: Bookends: American Hegemon in Iraq and the English Empire in Crimea or Charges of the Light Brigades
gallop through the smoky fight race into the valley of their cross fire move at the speed of sight and light where the edge of the web never tires the [...]
It’s All One Thing #69: Allen Ginsberg at the Church of the Covenant 1978 (a Stone Soup Event)
Oh, I sang along, rolled in the aisles by Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright a line going through my abdomen I dangled, Jesus, Jesus Christ, KEY-RIST there must a been a [...]
It’s All One Thing #68: The Blizzard of ‘03
Now out on the ice collect the smashed groom firmly in hand and usher him to the waiting Blazer before you drive the out-law-in-law Cleveland contingent back to the motel [...]
It’s All One Thing #67: The Only Time
The only time I was actually in country someone says, “Hey this is Vietnam,” visions of black and orange getting blown up on the run way but then when we [...]
It’s All One Thing #66: Mirage
for Mirage Movement Theater In the winter the drifts blew around the building and the sun dazzled the snow on the storm windows while inside we lived in primordial swamp [...]
It’s All One Thing #65: This Winter
This Winter of decay and defeat and death stuck in middle age, crisis of dark age stuttering renascence, late renaissance always just beyond the horizon of this lowdown broken storm [...]
It’s All One Thing #64: Labyrinth as Rat Hole (re: Saddam Hussein’s Capture)
When I enter the crypt hall (like Saddam Hussein in his ‘spider’ hole) there is a real rat caught in a trash can. I immediately hear it skitter about on [...]
It’s All One Thing #63: Anglos III
The first two colonies in Virginia and Massachusetts trickling onto the continent like Jekyll and Hyde twins one a bunch of rapscallions, crooks, and debtors the other religious fanatics seeking [...]
It’s All One Thing #62: The Twelve Days of Christmas
It turns out it all started with the 12 Days of Christmas the Twelve Lords a Leaping were really basic belief in the Catholic Apostolic Creed and here we are stuck [...]