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Comet: Words and the World
Good books come like asteroids, shooting through and out your life, their tails raw and glimmering long after the phenomena itself has passed. Years of work, tears, toil – we read books in only…
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The What For
What’s the point of it, this writing? What’s the point of sitting bare and naked against your thoughts and making something of them, especially if no one but yourself and a close cohort of…
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A Rumination on Rejection.
To create is to be rejected. That’s the way it is and that is how it always will be. It is the scourge of creatives; it is the bane of the writer’s life, specifically,…
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God as Rock, God as River: A Rumination and a Poem
God is rock and in that rock is God. So, too, is He of the rock. Made by the rock and for it.Go and add that the rock is God itself and so is rock…
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Piping Plover: A Symbol, A Rumination
Charadrius melodus. Shorebird, skitterer, whistler, watcher. I do think we all have our bird. If we don’t have a bird, we at least have an animal. If we don’t have even that, then I…
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Poem: “American Atrocities (Two Interjections)”
I don’t have much to say on this poem except that no one wants to publish it, and so I’ll put it here as one more frantic kick against the system that has our…
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Poem: “the new command”
This past June, I was honored to have my poem, “the new command,” published in the third issue of Blue Moon Review. I often don’t like to discuss the inspiration behind particular works, as…
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Glassel: A Rumination on Words
I once read somewhere that English is the language of the marketplace. It is a commodity language, and that is precisely why it has gained such popularity. It is malleable, meaning that it can…
