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October 2, 2015
Saltwater and Ink: A Poem
Opalescent moon, senescent sky A fog at dusk that speaks to me in tongues Like the prophets of old My phantom dreams, papier-mache and origami, so fragile, Milk-white, and pale Are laid at the altar As I clutch this knife With your name on my lips. This love isn’t pretty but it is real (Real like […]
August 24, 2015
Promises: A Poem
Like smoke on the horizon Like ash at my feet Like grey soot and bony plants I am afraid. Like cryptic messages passed from hand to hand Like acrid liquor in my throat Like heat in my belly, growing I am afraid. Succulent fruit, lush and sweet Are your promises. Like smoke in my mouth Like […]
August 10, 2015
Book Review: “The Vintner’s Daughter” by Kristen Harnisch
Last week I blogged about attending the 2015 Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City. I met so many fantastic agents, editors, and writers there, some of whom I hope will be contacts for years to come. One of the most astounding connections I made was with author Kristen Harnisch, who lectured at a session […]
August 6, 2015
Writer’s Digest Conference 2015: A Reflection
This past weekend I attended the 2015 Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City. It was only the second writing conference I’ve ever attended, and far larger in size and scale than the first. There were maybe four times as many agents and editors as there were at the first one I went to (the Missouri Writer’s […]
July 10, 2015
This Is How To Love Her: A Poem
This is how to love her: Tell her about that summer you spent every night staring at the stars. Ask her which is her favorite constellation– Orion, Gemini, Scorpio? Listen. This is how to love her: Play her the CD you listened to for two months straight when you were seventeen. She might laugh at […]
June 23, 2015
The Grand Canyon: A Poem
The Colorado River carves through two countries, Seven states, And half the history of the world. They say it took seventeen million years (What patience, what strength!) To carve a line so deep you cannot see the bottom. To think that you and I Achieved the same feat In a single day (Our strength Is of a […]
June 18, 2015
Book Review: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
It’s been a long time since I read a science fiction novel–hell, any novel–that disturbed me in quite the way Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly did. Forget science fiction. This is literature. This is one of those books that proves that genre fiction can be as real, hard-hitting, and thought-provoking as literary fiction, any day of […]
June 15, 2015
Devotional: Dance of Life
“Weathered faces crusted with white paste, they hunch like specters over the fire stones and blackened pot; perhaps they will rise and, in dead silence, perform the slow dance of the sennin–wild mountain sages of the ancient days in China and Japan who give no formal teaching but redeem all beings by the very purity of […]
June 8, 2015
Devotional: Goodbye
“Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.” – Elizabeth Alexander “I’ve never really said goodbye to anyone.” – KSR Image credit: Fiore Rosso, “Frequency 68, Hill 60″
May 28, 2015
Devotional: Fear
I am afraid of so many things I cannot count them all. like failure, for instance there are uncountably many ways to fail and I am afraid of all of them. or sadness and its harsher twin, weakness. I fear them both. yes, darkness too there’s a reason I don’t go out to howl at […]
