Ultimately, the goal is to get something done, if only to put down something after a life-rrrreally-got-in-the-way hiatus. 10-line, 11-syllable terza rima, here: 20/20. You are more than this gradual expansion, more than the taut lengthening of the tendons, or shifts in the centers of gravitation. All systems are preoccupied with functions in constructing your channels, your inner sparks,…
Category: Poetry
Works that employ figurative language, metrical patterns and words that rhyme.
Frayed Knots
I really really really really really had to put something down on a page today. It’s an 11 x 17 in a stupendously early draft form, but it dissolved some of the cobwebs in my brain, making this post altogether worth it. ♥ EAB Fear From the tiny, perhaps trivial – wasp wings and spidery spites – to…
Rebirth of the Spool + Need(lework)
Since my lifepace switch got stuck in turbo mode a while back, it’s been harder than differential calculus to find the time to sort out the transfer of my web host and domains to a new one that doesn’t get hacked every thirty seconds. A couple of weeks ago, however, I had no choice but…
(cue elevator music) + Stippling
(I’m blogging out of Tumblr while I s l o o o o o o w l y sort out the mess with my webhost after this hacking nightmare. Thanks for hanging like a stalactite! Mwah!) While walking my pooch this morning, I had a shoulder-tapping hankering for writing some poetry. I haven’t jotted down…
charismatic simulacra + #MoG1 Update
I’ve admittedly been a few different classifications of AWOL. Among current events, this site was hacked, and fortunately I’ve managed to get it back to about 95% running capacity. Nevertheless, I assure you that I have been popping various materials—mineral and vegetable—into my cauldron in preparation for an announcement about Book 2 that I will…
The Musician
It’s January, and that it means it’s time to get back to work! I’m pleased to report that the redrafting of Book 2 of Ministers of Grace is well underway, and yesterday, I was such a beast that I plowed through 500 words of a chapter, churned out four haikus in twelve minutes (1, 2,…
Chromatic Aberration
Sometimes I can really sink into the quiet that the road provides. This—four 4 x 10s with rhymes in lines 2 and 4—is the result of two flights across the US that I endured on Tuesday. ♥ EAB Chromatic Aberration Exposure: light slips beneath the surface of everything, turning out the colors inside the molecular…
Falling First – some verse! – & #MoG iBooks format
Just a quick note: Cherubim & Seraphim is now available in the iBookstore. All electronic formats—Kindle, Nook or iPad—are going for $2.99. As it was snowing here in NYC last night, I felt it was time to knock out a quick little ditty about it. Here’s an early draft… it’s one long sentence, 7×11. Falling…
Haikus & Update
Requiescat in pace: my hard drive died a painful death on October 27, 2013, aka Hellaween, after I’d tried to install OSX Mavericks. It was a sad, sad day, esp. as my life of late hadn’t permitted any manner of document backup since July 26th. I lost a fair amount of work, but I’ve been…