I read an Erle Stanley Gardner/Perry Mason novelette last month. It was not exactly literary, but it was exciting and fun in places. The novelette came in a hardcover book with two other novelettes, which I decided I didn't need to read. (Did I mention these popular lawyer-detective books were not exactly literary?) What was … Continue reading Spring poem →

After writing 365+ poems, sporadically over about a year's time, there was a lot of selection work to put together a collection (which is currently being polished up in preparation for seeking publication.) This is a poem that I held in consideration for a couple of rounds, but ultimately decided it wasn't quite right. Still, … Continue reading Winter poem →

71. Lizol in India by K. MacMichael (poem number 71 from last year's poetry project) I never knew this cheerful yellow spray bottle this way all the ways it has been used since 1889 I just recently learned from a guy on youtube it is meant to be diluted before spraying to sanitize which I’ve … Continue reading Lizol in India →

As I've mentioned ad nauseum at this point, I have over 365 poems (or poems that turned into short stories) which I wrote between September 2023 and September 2024, and I've been going through them and deciding which should seek "official" publication and which are either just so bad (or angry, or personal) they should … Continue reading Poems that don’t quite make it →