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The Falling Leaf Review

Publishing and Contributing Editor Jay Ruvolo

* Banana Tree*
* Blind Prophet
* Blindness and Other Scenes
* Caravaggio and I [A Short Story]
* D’Arc that Brings Light
* Death, Angels and the Moon
* Ditch Plains Dogs
* Falling through Bamboo
* Finding a Payphone that Works [A Short Story]
* God the Ungodly
* God’s Finger to Adam’s
* Good Friday Recollection
* Grammar, Grammarians, Grammaticus [a fictional essay]
* I Wait for the Rain
* Impure Blood [Short Story]
* In Itself American
* Kosher Pastrami [fiction]
* Light, Camera, Shadow, Gaze
* Narrator, Narrated one
* Pages from a Philosophy Student’s Notebook; a Short Story*
* Signore Buconiglio; a Short Story
* The Algerian’s Flowers
* The Vocative Mood of a Sub-Sub Librarian; or, a Whale of a Self
* Theme in Variation, Fee, Fie, Fiction and History
* Truth is Beauty
*Hera’s Tit; or, The Soul of Genius
*Nausea two
33 Theses on Authoring a Critique of Power
A Vindication of Gay Marriage
A Vindication of Human Rights
A Woman Is [short fiction]
Abortion is a Woman’s Parachute
ABOUT MOTION; A Video Poem
Absence is Presence [short fiction] *
Amend Our Ways
Another Note to the Reader
Archipelago Americanus
AROUND; A Video Poem
Asking
Barnum and Obama
Bee Hive Nation
Before the Law
Being Jeffersonian, Thus
Betting Window: Voting Booth
Beyond the Need for Liberty?
Black is Black [fiction]
Blackface for the Elite? [fiction]
Bone Fingers [A Short Story]
Capital ‘P’ People
Capitalism is Not a Fact of Nature
Choosing to be Human
Communicating Communicated
Conformity vs. Obedience
Consensus, Non-Sensus
Cornerstone of Liberty
Cows, Horses, Pigs and Women
Critical Condition
Curtain Rods, Wire Hangers, Women and Queers
Diatribe
Doppelgänger [short fiction]
Double Think Down the Left
Duality or Dichotomy
Existential Freedom, Essential Freedom
Existential Hamlet Precedes Essential Hamlet
Faith, Belief and the Limits of Knowing
Feather Dusters, Full Moons and Bloggers
Fee, Fie, Fictio, Historum
Fetal Heartbeat
Fire and Embrace
Freedom is a Short Neck Among Giraffes
Full of Grace
Futilitarianism
Gravity, Tombs and Other Falls
Greed Breeds Greed
Guilty versus Not-guilty
Hamlet is Cartesian
Hamlet My Brother is My Father
Hard Times for History and Historiography
Human Humane
Humanity
Humanity is a Monstrosity
Humanity is the Thesis
Hypocrite Readers of Hamlet, My Brothers
Hysterical Historical
I am We the People
I Am, therefore, I think [A Short Story]
I Become a Member of the Past Again
I is a Delusion
I Recollect Recalling Having Remembered
I Two Myself
I Wear Different Haberdash
Iceberg, Dead Ahead
Idiocy is Pandemic
Imperialism, Colonialism, Nationalism, Zionism
In Itself American: Beta
In Itself American: Gamma
In/Formation
Individuality Divisible
Into the Labyrinth [fiction]
Into the Wild
Islam or Illiteracy?
Israel and Colonialism
JFK and a New Left Legacy
JFK and the Amoral Center of the Media Presidency
Journal Entries [fiction]
Kettles, Pots and Political Frying Pans
Labyrinth and Abyss
Last Best Hope?
Laughing at the Devil
Less Than Kin
Liberty Lessens as Literacy Weakens
Licenses to Gratify
Literacy, Politics and the Pedagogy of Failure
Literary Reviews are as Literary Reviews Do
Literate Being, Being Literate
Love is the Soul of Humanity
Macrocosmically Me
Mammon is God
Managing Pedagogy [fiction]
Martyrdom Follows Marriage [Anonymous]
Media are the Messages
MEDIAtion
Mediocrity and Success
Meekness Humbled?
Messages and Media
Misconceptions Dis-conceived
Mise-En-Scene and the Obscene
Misguided Understanding of Power
Mister Jingo, Master Jingoist [A Short-story]
Monologues and Vision
Mules or Men
Multiculturalism and the New Golden Age
Murder and Race
My Brother, My Likeness
My Pen is My Scalpel
Nemesis Hunts the Ignorant
Nevermind Arithmetic
New and Now are Cults
New Potential Old [Of Woman]
No One Keeps His Balance four
Non-Voting; or Pro-Active Dissent
Of Punching or Not Punching
Of Reviewing
Of Sex and Sexuality
Of Soul and Mind
Of the Elites, By the Elites, and For the Elites
On Being Literate
On Stage, Off Stage
ONDINE; a Video Poem
Ontological Self; or, Transcendental Me
Other Questions
Passing through the Heart
People Versus the State
Perils of an Anthropomorphic Egg
Petty Paces
Philosophy is Wonder
Pimps and Prostitutes
Pluralism
Police, People and the Public
Politcal and Social Entropy; Literacy Falling Apart
Politeness and the New Politique
POWER, RACE AND PERSONA [a short story]
Preclusions, Exclusions, Conclusions
Prison House of State
Privileges Vs. Rights; Citizenship and Systems of Inequality
pro In the Garden
pro Intentions Attended
pro Letter to Anonymous
pro NOTES to the Reader
pro Of Blogging
pro Shakespeare, Montaigne and the Bible
pro We Will Repeat Ourselves
pro Web Log II
pro Writing a Web Log
Prophets and Prophecies
Public-Minded
Purposeful Journey
Purposefully without Purpose?
Quantity Trumps Quality
Question, Philosophical
Questions and Demands
R.S.V.P.
Rain Outside
Reading, Writing and Re-viewing
Reducing Unemployment [short fiction]
Remembrance is not a Day [Flash Fiction]
Rhetorical Strategy
Rhone Red with Ribs
Rosalind’s Espresso Pot [Fiction; a short story]
Salvation Now [fiction]
Sanity/Sanitize [fiction]
Seeing Seen Again
Sex, Love, Communication
Silence is Suicide [fiction]
SIMPLE/ A JVR FILM W/ FALLING LEAF PICTURES
SIMPLE; A Video Poem
Sodomy, Sadism and Politics
Something Less than Democracy
Soul is What we Say When
Soul of Genius
Soul of Genius
Spied On––Spied Of, Spied By, Spied For; a Re-Vision
Spy, Spying, Spied
Stages; On, Off and Against
Standardized Tests and Privilege Systems
Standing Under
State & Stage
States are Tautologies
Suspension of Disbelief
Technology Advanced [Alternate Take]; a Video Poem
TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED; a Video Poem
The ABCs of Literacy?
The Coldest Winter
The Courage of Oedipus
THE FALLING LEAF REVIEW, Summer Solstice 2018
The Good, the Bad and the Literary
The Highest Wisdom
The Ontological Self
The Passing of Democracy
The Polemicist, a Short Story
The Republic of Silence
The State vs. The People
The Unalienable Right to Choose
There Were no Ice Flows in the Seine
Through the Glass Darkly
To Between or not to Between
To Love or not to Love
Toward Feminology
Truth, Anti-Truth and the Dogma of Doubt
Twenty Million Women
Usual Suspects
Vanity is Truth
Vindication
Waiting for Beckett
Waiting for Lunch
Warnings and Wardens
We Are What We Read
We, Another Mask
Western Review
What I Want, What I Get
What is She?
What Profits the Prophet?
What We Are, What I Am
When I Write
Who Am I vs. What I Am
Who’s to Say?
Wife, Midwife, Witch
William Brian, a Short Story
With a Grain
Woman Is
Written and Revised
Yet Another Note to the Reader
Zeno’s Day Dream; a Video Poem
Zionism and the Media
Hera’s Tit
MEDIA and MESSAGES
HAMLET MY BROTHER IS MY FATHER
SOMETHING LESS THAN DEMOCRACY
The Pool, You Know, the Pool
THE REPUBLIC OF SILENCE
What I Learned from Her
Visibility Through the Storms [a short story]

Day: September 19, 2015

Haiku by Jay Ruvolo

September 19, 2015December 15, 2015 ~ jvr ~ Leave a comment

Sun flowers recut In smaller vases--petals Turning at the tips. --jvr

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pro NOTES to the Reader
Usual Suspects
Perils of an Anthropomorphic Egg
The Unalienable Right to Choose
Double Think Down the Left
Visibility Through the Storms [a short story]
Woman Is
Greed Breeds Greed
Israel and Colonialism
* Grammar, Grammarians, Grammaticus [a fictional essay]
* God the Ungodly
Curtain Rods, Wire Hangers, Women and Queers
Bee Hive Nation
Cows, Horses, Pigs and Women
* Signore Buconiglio; a Short Story
Labyrinth and Abyss
Philosophy is Wonder
State & Stage
Passing through the Heart
Betting Window: Voting Booth
Before the Law
Pimps and Prostitutes
Literacy, Politics and the Pedagogy of Failure
New and Now are Cults
Archipelago Americanus
My Brother, My Likeness
With a Grain
Licenses to Gratify
Sodomy, Sadism and Politics
Human Humane
Iceberg, Dead Ahead
What I Learned from Her
MEDIAtion
Vindication
Freedom is a Short Neck Among Giraffes
Nemesis Hunts the Ignorant
States are Tautologies
Who’s to Say?
Truth, Anti-Truth and the Dogma of Doubt
Idiocy is Pandemic
Something Less than Democracy
Laughing at the Devil
Waiting for Beckett
The State vs. The People
Futilitarianism
Hera’s Tit
* The Vocative Mood of a Sub-Sub Librarian; or, a Whale of a Self
Question, Philosophical
Standing Under
Monologues and Vision
I Recollect Recalling Having Remembered
Gravity, Tombs and Other Falls
* The Algerian’s Flowers
Humanity is a Monstrosity
To Love or not to Love
Of Soul and Mind
R.S.V.P.
Barnum and Obama
Prison House of State
Journal Entries [fiction]
Preclusions, Exclusions, Conclusions
Sanity/Sanitize [fiction]
In/Formation
Fetal Heartbeat
Blackface for the Elite? [fiction]
* God’s Finger to Adam’s
Full of Grace
Abortion is a Woman’s Parachute
Mules or Men
Fee, Fie, Fictio, Historum
Humanity
Existential Freedom, Essential Freedom
* Kosher Pastrami [fiction]
Love is the Soul of Humanity
* Pages from a Philosophy Student’s Notebook; a Short Story*
Soul of Genius
* I Wait for the Rain
* Light, Camera, Shadow, Gaze
Cornerstone of Liberty
Kettles, Pots and Political Frying Pans
Faith, Belief and the Limits of Knowing
I am We the People
Questions and Demands
Rain Outside
The Pool, You Know, the Pool
Fire and Embrace
Police, People and the Public
The Republic of Silence
pro In the Garden
Multiculturalism and the New Golden Age
Feather Dusters, Full Moons and Bloggers
I Am, therefore, I think [A Short Story]
* Death, Angels and the Moon
Privileges Vs. Rights; Citizenship and Systems of Inequality
What is She?
The Highest Wisdom
Hamlet My Brother is My Father
Imperialism, Colonialism, Nationalism, Zionism
Last Best Hope?
What We Are, What I Am
Of the Elites, By the Elites, and For the Elites
Non-Voting; or Pro-Active Dissent
Public-Minded
Petty Paces
Twenty Million Women
Guilty versus Not-guilty
Mammon is God
Choosing to be Human
Silence is Suicide [fiction]
Being Jeffersonian, Thus
The Passing of Democracy
People Versus the State
Wife, Midwife, Witch
Absence is Presence [short fiction] *
JFK and the Amoral Center of the Media Presidency
Suspension of Disbelief
To Between or not to Between
Vanity is Truth
Politeness and the New Politique
Rosalind’s Espresso Pot [Fiction; a short story]
Less Than Kin
I Become a Member of the Past Again
* Impure Blood [Short Story]
No One Keeps His Balance four
I is a Delusion
Individuality Divisible
Pluralism
The Polemicist, a Short Story
Existential Hamlet Precedes Essential Hamlet
Messages and Media
JFK and a New Left Legacy
Who Am I vs. What I Am
Quantity Trumps Quality
Diatribe
Misguided Understanding of Power
Meekness Humbled?
Hard Times for History and Historiography
Amend Our Ways
There Were no Ice Flows in the Seine
Into the Wild
A Vindication of Human Rights
Liberty Lessens as Literacy Weakens
Murder and Race
Of Punching or Not Punching
Doppelgänger [short fiction]
* Caravaggio and I [A Short Story]
* Falling through Bamboo
Remembrance is not a Day [Flash Fiction]
Zionism and the Media
Spy, Spying, Spied
pro Writing a Web Log
Consensus, Non-Sensus
Islam or Illiteracy?
Warnings and Wardens
We Are What We Read
* Finding a Payphone that Works [A Short Story]
pro Web Log II
pro Of Blogging
Ontological Self; or, Transcendental Me
Beyond the Need for Liberty?
Black is Black [fiction]
The Coldest Winter
In Itself American: Beta
Mediocrity and Success
* In Itself American
In Itself American: Gamma
* Good Friday Recollection
Stages; On, Off and Against
Duality or Dichotomy
Mise-En-Scene and the Obscene
William Brian, a Short Story
Macrocosmically Me
On Stage, Off Stage
On Being Literate
Nevermind Arithmetic
I Wear Different Haberdash
POWER, RACE AND PERSONA [a short story]
* D’Arc that Brings Light
Sex, Love, Communication
Capitalism is Not a Fact of Nature
pro We Will Repeat Ourselves
Yet Another Note to the Reader
pro Intentions Attended
Misconceptions Dis-conceived
* Theme in Variation, Fee, Fie, Fiction and History
Hamlet is Cartesian
* Blindness and Other Scenes
33 Theses on Authoring a Critique of Power
Written and Revised
Managing Pedagogy [fiction]
Literate Being, Being Literate
Standardized Tests and Privilege Systems
pro Shakespeare, Montaigne and the Bible
Western Review
The ABCs of Literacy?
Reading, Writing and Re-viewing
Toward Feminology
Purposefully without Purpose?
What Profits the Prophet?
Politcal and Social Entropy; Literacy Falling Apart
When I Write
Literary Reviews are as Literary Reviews Do
We, Another Mask
What I Want, What I Get
Communicating Communicated
The Good, the Bad and the Literary
Rhetorical Strategy
*Hera’s Tit; or, The Soul of Genius
Rhone Red with Ribs
Purposeful Journey
Bone Fingers [A Short Story]
Hysterical Historical
Prophets and Prophecies
pro Letter to Anonymous
Critical Condition
My Pen is My Scalpel
Asking
Capital ‘P’ People
SIMPLE/ A JVR FILM W/ FALLING LEAF PICTURES
Media are the Messages
Of Reviewing
Spied On––Spied Of, Spied By, Spied For; a Re-Vision
Another Note to the Reader
Of Sex and Sexuality
ABOUT MOTION; A Video Poem
Martyrdom Follows Marriage [Anonymous]
HAMLET MY BROTHER IS MY FATHER
MEDIA and MESSAGES
THE REPUBLIC OF SILENCE
SOMETHING LESS THAN DEMOCRACY
Mister Jingo, Master Jingoist [A Short-story]
* Blind Prophet
* Narrator, Narrated one
* Ditch Plains Dogs
Waiting for Lunch
Through the Glass Darkly
A Woman Is [short fiction]
Reducing Unemployment [short fiction]
Conformity vs. Obedience
Soul of Genius
I Two Myself
Other Questions
Seeing Seen Again
The Ontological Self
Soul is What we Say When
Hypocrite Readers of Hamlet, My Brothers
New Potential Old [Of Woman]
Salvation Now [fiction]
* Truth is Beauty
Humanity is the Thesis
*Nausea two
The Courage of Oedipus
Into the Labyrinth [fiction]
* Banana Tree*
SIMPLE; A Video Poem
AROUND; A Video Poem
A Vindication of Gay Marriage
Zeno’s Day Dream; a Video Poem
TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED; a Video Poem
ONDINE; a Video Poem
Technology Advanced [Alternate Take]; a Video Poem
THE FALLING LEAF REVIEW, Summer Solstice 2018

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