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C.A.Corbell
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Music / poetry / mathematics / fantasy lit / nerd-work. Μαθαίνω ελληνικά.
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From my sketchbook: Stephanie's left eye.
November 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Just wanna say through all the ups and downs and chaos, your higher self and the call of beauty is still there. Make magic, work spirits, do soul.
August 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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The pivot

And what would you have me
bring forth from this abyss
if not sweetness?

#poem #poetry #poet
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The pivot – C. A. Corbell
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August 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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"We may have overestimated the buoyancy of our family tree."

The prose poem PAPER BILLOWS closes out the surrealist ORACLE section of ATHENALOGIA, my debut full-length poetry collection.

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#booksky #poetry #surreal #prosepoem #poet #poetrycommunity #newpoem #poem
PAPER BILLOWS - the last #surreal #prosepoem in the #oracle section of ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell
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July 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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"SUPERPOSITION PARK" is a surreal prose-poem from ATHENALOGIA.

#booksky #prosepoem #poetry #newpoetry #poetrybook #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poem

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"SUPERPOSITION PARK" is a #surreal #prosepoem from my book ATHENALOGIA. #poetryreading #newpoetry
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July 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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The moon looked like cement. Like a step.

"VILLAGE ELLIPSIS" is a prose poem from the book ATHENALOGIA.

#poetryreading #poet #newpoem #poetrybook #prosepoem #prosepoetry #surrealpoetry #pnwpoets #element #nucleus #contraption #alongthebuttressedwallatmidnight

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VILLAGE ELLIPSIS a #prosepoem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell #newpoetry #poetryreading #poetry
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July 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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"ITINERARY" is a surrealist prose-poem from my book ATHENALOGIA.

#booksky #poetsofbluesky #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #newpoem #prosepoem #surrealism #newpoetry #poetryreading #poetryvideo #video #poetrybook

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ITINERARY - a #prosepoem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell. #poetryreading #poet #poem #surrealism
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July 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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"IDYLL PULLEY" is a surreal prose-poem from my book ATHENALOGIA.

#booksky #poetry #poets #prosepoem #surrealism #poetrycommunity #surrealpoetry

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"IDYLL PULLEY", a #prosepoem #oracle from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell #poetryreading #newpoetry
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June 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"...a sock dropped from the foothills."

BURNT UMBER: a surrealist prose-poem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell

#poetry #poet #newpoetry #poetrycommunity #poem #prosepoem #surrealism #surrealistpoetry #pnwpoet

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BURNT UMBER - #poetryreading from p. 36 of ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell #surrealism #prosepoem
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June 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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"We found their lunar hipbones on the beach."

PORT ARGENT is the next poem from ATHENALOGIA, my forthcoming poetry book.

#booksky #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #poem #prosepoem #newpoetry #poetrybook #surrealism #surrealistpoetry #ephemeral #emanations

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"PORT ARGENT", a surrealist #prosepoem from page 35 of my book ATHENALOGIA. #poetryreading #poem
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June 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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DELTA VOCATION

A new daily prose-poem from my collection ATHENALOGIA.
#booksky #poetry #newpoems #surrealism #prosepoem #poetsofbluesky #poems

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"DELTA VOCATION" - a #surrealist #poem by C. A. Corbell - #prosepoem #poetryreading #newpoetry
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June 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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"Buried under the city is a sky."

POPPY OR TACTIC is another short #surrealist #prosepoem from my forthcoming #poetry collection ATHENALOGIA.

#booksky #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #newpoetry #poems #surrealism #pnwpoet #poetrycommunity #poetryreading #poetryvideo

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"POPPY OR TACTIC" - a #poem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell #poetryreading #newpoetry #prosepoem
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June 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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For anyone in the Portland, Oregon or SW Washington area, next Wednesday June 11 we're hosting the 22nd Washougal Song Circle. 3 excellent songwriters (plus the hosts), free, all-ages!

Valdoria, Kitchen Congregation, Quinton Parker, with hosts Raven Fables.

#pdxmusic #washougal #songwriters
June 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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"MILL FLIP" - an oracular prose poem from the forthcoming poetry collection ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell

#booksky #poetry #prosepoem #surrealism #poet #writers #books #poetrybook #surrealpoetry #newpoetry #newpoem #dailypoem #poetryreading #rhododendron #stencils

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"MILL FLIP" - a prose #poem #oracle from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell #poetryreading #newpoetry
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June 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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"...we checked the closet shoebox for webs of ancestry."

For #booksky, another #surrealist #prosepoem from the forthcoming #poetry collection ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell.

In this one you'll find #moon #moth #lens #aperture #curvefits #eclipse and #baskets of words.

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IRIS METRIC - a new #poem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell - #poetryreading #surrealism #newpoetry
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June 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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"GLASS BATON" is a surrealist prose poem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell.
"The geometry of the actual flower is swallowed by the soil."
#booksky #writer #poetsofbluesky #poetryreading #poem #surrealism #poetry #poetrycommunity #newpoem #poetrybook #skiff #goat #meadow
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"GLASS BATON" is a #surreal #prosepoem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell #surrealism #poetryreading
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June 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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ERGOSTASIO means FACTORY (Greek εργοστάσιο). I'm sharing the free Patreon post of this prose poem to encourage folks to follow me there - no algorithms!

"We will keep trying to bless the assembly line..."

#newpoetry #poetrycommunity #prosepoem #poet #poem

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"ERGOSTASIO" | C. A. Corbell
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May 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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SOFT AXIOM a surreal prose-poem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #prosepoem #fossils #sundial #isomorphism #starward #pnwpoet #poetryvideo #video #poetryreading #newpoem #poetrybook #surrealism #surrealpoetry

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“SOFT AXIOM” - prose-#poem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A . Corbell #poetryreading #surrealism
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May 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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MINERAL CUSTOM - a surreal prose-poem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell

#booksky
#poetrybook
#poetry
#surrealism
#newpoem
#poetsofbluesky
#oracle
#mineral
#caldera
#doves
#corrugated
#eyelid
#insectwings
#worldview
#navel
#surrealpoetry

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MINERAL CUSTOM, a #surreal prose-#poem from ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell #poetryreading #newpoetry
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May 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Here's an intro to the ORACLE section of my forthcoming book, including the Greek poet whose work inspired my daily surrealist writing practice.

#booksky #poetrybook #surrealism #greekpoets #γενιατου1930 #embeirikos #surrealpoetry #υψικαμινος #blastfurnace #prosepoem

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Introduction to the ORACLE section of #poetry book ATHENALOGIA by C. A. Corbell #poet #surrealism
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May 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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#booksky "Pigeon test" is a new #poem from my forthcoming book. It's the only iambic pentameter in the book! (There had to be one). It's also a dream poem that makes a transition to the second section of the book, when things get fully surreal...

#poetry #poetsofbluesky
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"Pigeon test" #poetry from Athenalogia by C. A. Corbell #poetryreading #newpoetry #poem #blankverse
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May 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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"The big Yes or No" is a poem I wrote in response to a Cavafy poem. I also give a translation of Cavafy's poem. The Cavafy poem was itself a response to Dante!

#poetrycommunity

#poetry #poem #reponsepoem #cavafy #poetsofbluesky #newpoem #dailypoem #yes #no #όχι

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"The big Yes or No", a #poem from Athenalogia by C. A. Corbell, plus the Cavafy poem that sparked it
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May 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Hi local friends! I will be the featured reader at the Poetry Street PNW open mic on Wednesday May 28, at the public library in Camas, WA. Hope to see you there! I'll be reading my own poems and also some (original and translated) modern Greek poetry.

#poetry #pnwlife #poetryreading #camaswa #pdx
May 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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"Atomic Delphi" - new #poem from Athenalogia

#writers #poetry #poetsofbluesky #newpoem #delphi #atomic #sun #solar #poetrybook #poetryreading

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Atomic Delphi - a #poem from Athenalogia by C. A. Corbell #newpoetry #poetryreading #poets #poetry
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May 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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I've been checking out Substack, I find as a creator and reader that it's frustrating. Many hoops to jump through (for both creator and reader) and many limitations on post formats for an ostensibly author-centric site. I wonder if any other writers feel the same.

#substack #writer #patreon
May 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM