Bill Pearse

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• Einmal ist keinmal, one more time

  By Bill Pearse on June 17, 2018 • ( 23 )

  At the end of the summer, on the last days before school started, I’d go into the classroom with my dad at the school where he taught. There was a periodic table of the elements on one wall, chalkboards and… Read More ›

• Negative space

  By Bill Pearse on June 12, 2018 • ( 23 )

  I had to drink out of the side of my mouth to get the taste of glue out since half of me was still numb. I went back to the dentist, Dr. Chan, the first time in years, with lots… Read More ›

• ‘Time after time’

  By Bill Pearse on June 11, 2018 • ( 22 )

  My dog is 42, but could still pass for 30. Life in seven year increments, a year at a time. Cork screwing the side of Cougar Mountain, past the Klondike marsh through the damp forest thinking about Orin Smith, former… Read More ›

• Teaching machines to learn cause and effect

  By Bill Pearse on June 5, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  The twitch in my eye is the result of an outdated prescription, or from reading too much online at work, I’ve decided. The reading has been on artificial intelligence, training machine models to learn unsupervised through clusters of computers tied… Read More ›

• The night has a thousand eyes

  By Bill Pearse on June 4, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  The marine layer was back, and made for a moody start to our Sunday. I climbed the gravel road to the lake past the caterpillars and birdsong, a rustling in the grass and leaves. We all had to go back… Read More ›

• The Oxford comma

  By Bill Pearse on June 1, 2018 • ( 16 )

  

  Dawn said there’s a cheaper treatment for lice, where you just put mayonnaise on your head and tie it off in a bag and then wait a couple hours, and they die from the oils. I learned about the Oxford… Read More ›

• ‘Clockwise’

  By Bill Pearse on May 31, 2018 • ( 17 )

  

  Around this time of day my eye starts to twitch and I have to hold it to make it stop. There’s the old wall clock in the living room that’s slow, needs help keeping up – then the clock in… Read More ›

• Lines (of longitude and latitude)

  By Bill Pearse on May 30, 2018 • ( 12 )

  Though the tree is dead, it’s home to a lot of bugs, birds and bats, you can tell by the holes. It’s like the abandoned factory across the street from our apartment in Philadelphia that became home to the homeless,… Read More ›

• Wilhelm’s mausoleom

  By Bill Pearse on May 29, 2018 • ( 18 )

  

  I stopped by the dry cleaners, then the car wash — vacuumed out the pollen, the cottonwood, pine needles and dandruff, the nail clippings and dirt, then gathered wood to make a fire later, shook off the spiders from the… Read More ›

• The god of only children

  By Bill Pearse on May 28, 2018 • ( 18 )

  

  For some reason when I’m in Portland I feel like I can be more myself, maybe because no one knows me here. I wake and walk down César Chávez to the Starbucks in the cool, marine air. And remember the… Read More ›

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