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March 2, 2017
The Raging Storm | Poem
Storm-driven sea and terror-driven police—combine images for our time. | Poem by Michael Dickel Continue reading →
February 14, 2017
Chai equals eighteen
The poem has four stanzas of 9 lines each, for 36 lines (double 18), not counting the epigrams from Genet. Each line has 9 syllables. The total number of syllables is 324, plus the 36 lines, equals 360—the number of degrees in a circle. Chai, Hebrew for life, equals 18 according to gematria. So, 36 lines, double 18, is double life. Continue reading →
February 9, 2017
Amber Ekphrasis | Poem
An ant, a piece of dinosaur's tail, stuck in amber—art, science, poetry. Ekphrasis of Amber, a poem by Michael Dickel, artwork by Judith Appleton. Continue reading →
January 23, 2017
Jerusalem’s Garden — Hybrid
A hybrid essay-fiction flash set in a mystical garden that doesn't exist in Jerusalem Recalled but possibly in Jerusalem Imagined. Continue reading →
January 21, 2017
Resist! —2 Poems
Beware false prophecies and Amerika for spatial lies for ambling waves of greed… Continue reading →
January 20, 2017
an (anti-)Inauguration Poem
When they made strange fire in an idolatrous offering, the earth opened and swallowed them whole—as now, with the inauguration of Fub, The Pretender, 20 Jan 2017. Prose poem by Michael Dickel. Continue reading →
January 15, 2017
15 January 2017— Poem
The MLK weekend, a rainy day near Jerusalem, contemplating the U.S. inauguration coming up Friday, 20 Jan, 2017. A prose poem by Michael Dickel. Continue reading →
January 5, 2017
My New Book is Out!
The Palm Reading after The Toad’s Garden (Is a Rose Press 2016), my fourth book, gathers flash fiction written in recent years (much of it for this blog)—from a series of surreal memoryscapes (featuring the woman with a beard and … Continue reading →
