Kurt R.A. Giambastiani's Blog, page 10

Post-Signing Reevaluation

Last weekend’s author-signing event went surprisingly well, but it was not devoid of lessons to be learned. I say “surprisingly well” only because of my standard introvert’s dis-ease when facing the public, plus the fact that this was my first signing event in nearly a decade. The fact that I sold any books (and to […]

Voices

the ether screams/headlines blare/so many voices/shout

Signing Event: 24Sep22

Between work, weddings, and assembling IKEA furniture, it’s been a busy week, but somewhere in there I also managed to wrangle an invitation to an “author appreciation” festival put on by a local independent bookstore (details below). Kent is a town south of Seattle, and Page Turner Books is a used/new bookseller in the downtown […]

An Unfather’s Pride

I do not have children.This was by design.

The Touch of Fire

Most of all, he enjoyed pruning the Japanese maples. They stood beneath the canopy of evergreens–spruce, pine, fir, cedar, cypress–the giants of his garden. The tall conifers took the brunt of the weather, snarling into the winds, sacrificing muscular branches heavy with sap and resined scent to protect the more delicate growth at their feet. […]

The Climb

From waterfront to high market the climb wends upward through the city’s memories, from old brick painted with faded names to new concrete laid at the feet of giants. Gulls cry below, scudding along the shore’s hungry limit, wings suspended on the taste of salt and kelp, while above, the rumble of metal and power […]

Stuck

just put up a poem she said when I complained of having no ideas as if it was the easiest thing to do and so I did

One Man’s Junk

To be fair, my habits regarding the accretion of memorabilia have always been austere, allowing only the most pithy of tokens to be added.

Self-Distraction

Yesterday was not a great day.
To start with, I was grumpy

Beyond

Our eyes spill out