Adam Byrn Tritt's Blog, page 10
January 24, 2014
Einstein’s Bagels And Why They Apparently Think I’m An Illiterate Putz.
I have a big superego. I freely admit that. I think a person should go out of their way to do the right thing and if something is wrong then you just don’t do it. That doesn’t make life in this culture very easy sometimes.
I am what the gamers, the folks who play Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games, call Neutral Good. As a player, that would be my moral alignment. Good, and Evil, come in three flavours—Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic. Lawful Good follows all the laws. That defines h...
January 8, 2014
Power and Passion
Prompted by the movie Blackfish and the very heartfelt question of a young lady.
And thank you, as always, to Craig Smith for the design. And thank you to Arlene Gorgone for the movie and G!G! for the inspiration.
Words and photograph by me. Photo taken at Castaway Point in Palm Bay, Florida, along the Indian River.
Please feel free to share, post, pass-along, borrow, steal, copy, paste and pilfer.
January 1, 2014
The Well
There are still tears
For you, around corners
I have avoided, nested into objects
Unexpected, curled up in words.
They well under memories
Until released, into the open,
Jostled by a stray scent,
Nudged by a colour,
The page of a book,
A wind in leaves.
There are still tears
For you, around corners
I have avoi...
There are still tears
For you, around corners
I have avoided, nested upon objects
Unexpected, curled up in words.
They well under memories
Repressed, until they come to the surface
Released by a stray scent, a colour,
The page of a book,
A wind in leaves.
October 27, 2013
Wintering
The sky is cloudless and
when I look up, it reminds me
of you, and when there are clouds
wispy, white, soft, light,
and I look up, it reminds me
of you. And storm clouds too.
Sunrises. Sunsets.
The air is cooling now.
When I met you,
it was crisp, but
the world was warming,
opening wide for the spring sun
and now summer has passed
and some days are winter sets
for plays that pass their time
in the course of that season, but you,
you, I hope,
will see spring with me again,
and again,
will watch with me the world...
September 14, 2013
Nightshirt
Originally Published in Elephant Journal.
(For Lee, 9/8/13)
For the first few weeks,
once I would return to the bed,
I’d lie on my side
arm on your pillow
your nightshirt tucked
under my cheek,
One of the few pieces of your clothing
I kept. The body is a just a shell
You said. But your lab coat,
the suit you wore to your graduation,
your nightshirt.
The one you wore to hospice.
The one you were comforted in,
the one, the last one.
Your favorite,
cornflower blue
Bamboo fiber,
soft and light,
unw...
September 12, 2013
Review – Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal Fin
A review of my latest book from an unexpected source.
Originally posted on Wakela's World:
Disclaimer: I received this book free fromSmithcraft Press in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation.
Growing up in a religiously open home, I learned about the basics of various holidays and religious practices. I remember having a friend in Elementary school named Michael H. He would try to explain the various holidays and what they meant. Yom Kippur was one that...
Review - Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal Fin
Reblogged from Wakela's World:
Disclaimer: I received this book free fromSmithcraft Press in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation.
Growing up in a religiously open home, I learned about the basics of various holidays and religious practices. I remember having a friend in Elementary school named Michael H. He would try to explain the various holidays and what they meant.
A review of my latest book from an unexpected source.
September 9, 2013
Ezekiel's Wheel is in the top 100 (76th) books on Judaism on Amazon.
http://amzn.to/1dTzgK9
August 20, 2013
Win a Copy of my Newest Book : Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal Fin
Want to win a copy of my newest book? Of course you do. Goodreads is holding a give-away for ten copies. Just click on this link.
From the back-matter:
“Whatever ‘the Jewish experience’ might mean to the modern reader, Adam Byrn Tritt’s approach is uniquely his own. He is ‘observant’ in the sense that he carefully observes, as you would expect of a man who is, at essence, a poet. As a self-described ‘Jewitarian Buddhaversalist,’ he is aware that each tradition illuminates the other. This collec...
