Imperfection is Perfection: A Film About Richard Sachs and his Bicycles
For nine months in 2007, film maker Des Horsfield made a documentary about bicycle frame builder Richard Sachs.
Horsfield’s film takes an intimate look into the life and mind of the bicycle frame builder as Richard Sachs talks about why he does what he does, exactly [...]
ADVENTURES IN INK
Fountain pen,
an adventure in ink.
Words drip from the nib’s caress ———
Strokes flow across the page,
swooping letters,
sweeping serifs.
A poet composes,
filling the page
with images culled
from the mind’s
recess.
Copyright © 2008, Steven L. Sheffield
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THE FIRST POEM
of the day will be
calm and gentle,
a stumbling, messy
easing in,
fingers gently on the typer,
becoming familiar with
the shape of the keys,
the sound of the hammer
and the form of the letters,
it will be a chance to breathe,
to gather some momentum,
to look at the blackbird
outside the window
and the sleeping cat
who care less for poetry
than the blackbird,
without [...]
