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 →