SLICE ‘N DICE
They screech they claw they shout they roar They climb they simper they chime they whimper They dance they chasse they prance they sway. They draw they clap they saw […]
THE FREEZING RIVER
Ezra Pound was no slouch when it came to literary traditions; his output is steeped in a deep knowledge of the writings, music and mythos of past times; this was […]
SPECTRUM BLUES:REVISITED
I am quiet and seem aloof but I struggle to find a voice in company I feel uneasy in So the days are inside my head and not with outside […]
DREAMERS OF DREAMS
Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1844-1881) didn’t have many years allocated to him, but during his short time on planet earth he managed to complete 4 collections of poetry, the most popular and […]
A BILLION MINUS ONE
I guess if there’s one thing that a writer needs is to be interesting, and Aldous Huxley steams full speed ahead on that one. A copious intake of chemical substances […]
THE LONELY SHORE
I wandered the lonely shore where Bittern shadows chase across a landscape of memory and time. Each shallow breath is a year that passed into an overgrown garden of silent […]
PILLARS OF GOLD
William Blake once saw the archangel Gabriel sitting in a tree on Peckham Rye. William saw lots of things that would have given modern head shrinks and behavioral experts wet […]
SPECTRUM MELODY
Goldfish memory is like when I hear a ‘joke’ but can’t process it as such because I don’t know what a joke is-as such. Wizards make spells but they don’t […]
IRONQUILL
Eugene Ware (1841-1911), perhaps better known in his day as Ironquill, has a renown that is gathering dust nowadays, yet was once one of America’s more famous writers-particularly in his […]
NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
This is not an academic blog, so I’m just going to focus on my personal thoughts on William Shakespeare. My mother read widely, was interested in all things to do […]
SPECTRUM WEIRD: REVISITED
I like the weird the dark nights when the moon’s light laps my face with its kisses and pools at my bare feet that feel the hardness of cold stone […]
TANKS ON THE LAWN
Ella Wheeler Cox (1850-1919) was a fine American author and poet who wrote many thought provoking works, none more so than An Inspiration, about the weakness of the apparently strong, […]
CURVED RAIN
Man, I love Emily Dickinson’s poetry. She is so off on another plain of thought to everyone else out there; every line is something you don’t expect, throwing you off […]
DARK RIVER
The morning air lies across the grass a blanket of memories that never pass. No birds come here only shadows of the dawn like a rusty garden gate leaning tired […]
VANITY FAIR REVISITED
Until very recently, I haven’t written about my autism, or how it has affected my life, because it was something I have lived with for a large part of my […]
LITTLE CREATURES
Sometimes, my mind is a prison others an escape hatch thoughts are like branches a forest of swaying trees. Memories are the little creatures scurrying about on the ground forbidden […]
