Tag: poetry

  • Publication Alert (8/16/25)

    Publication Alert (8/16/25)

    I am delighted to appear in the latest edition of Heterodox Haiku: Contrarians (p.43). Thank you, Jerome William Berglund, for including my #haiku in your extraordinary addition. So honored to appear with so many noted haijin! Congratulations to all of you featured in this edition!

  • Silvering

    Silvering

    Teen Wolf, the series pilot. A lone lycanthrope flees a party of human hunters. Their grim-faced leader stares ahead, his cold blue eyes revealing not a wisp of weakness. & why not? He comes from a long line of Argents—that bane of werewolves everywhere. that merciless skybound silver disk Sturgeon moon Camden Locke Market, London,…

  • #Haiku (7/31/25)

    #Haiku (7/31/25)

    7/30/25: color of silence suddenly not a single sound “paint it black” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • #Haiku (7/30/25)

    #Haiku (7/30/25)

    7/30/25: color of silence suddenly not a single sound “paint it black” #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • “See, What had happened was…”

    “See, What had happened was…”

    So… you have have noticed that I have not been around lately. Well, I could tell you about our merry adventure. How the “Powers that be” in the place we used to live violated our lease. & that we responded by searching high and low for a new place. I could tell you about trading…

  • O, Six-String!

    O, Six-String!

    The cadence of the strummed chords of an acoustic. The arpeggios plucked on the same strings their unending melodies morning bird songs The vibrant melodies exploding off the rabid finger-tabs on an eletric’s frets. The chest-pounding distortions of staccato chords licked on the same. piercing an afternoon cicadas Whatever sound, in whatever form, who dares…

  • Fishy Quandries

    Fishy Quandries

    Would I say yes? If a Galilean rabbi boarded my boat, & had me put out to preach? Then told me drop my nets? & nearly swamp my boat with netted fish after a fruitless night? Well, would I? calling us “Fishers of men…” dropped nets It’s Quadrille #228 over at dVerse, and Mish prompts…

  • The First Summer Heatwave

    The First Summer Heatwave

    The sun blazed across a sky with few clouds. Searing heat cooked me to a toasty medium well just on my walk from the front door to the car. Heat shimmers rose from the asphalt. But inside the Columbus Educational campus, many valiant air conditioners drone on in their noble struggle to maintain a comfortable…