Pablo Neruda in Italy, 1963


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Poster for “Game of Thrones” Season 4 (2011)

HBO.

The Piker Press publishes “Accident Allison!”

The really cool people at The Piker Press today published my humorous short poem “Accident Allison.”

You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this great creative community!



“Oaks,” Arkhip Kuindzhi, 20th Century

Oil on paper mounted on cardboard.

Critterwatch 2026 marches on!

Critters spotted:

  1. Fireflies!
  2. Polka-dot beetles! (I have since come to understand that these are the nascent, dread lanternflies.)
  3. Raccoons!
  4. Spider-eating wasps. (I kid you not. I saw SOME kind of hymenoptera dragging a frikkin’ GIANT wolf spider along as takeout. I tried to get a picture of this clash of the Titans, but then the wasp dropped its meal and stated menacing ME. Got the hell out of there.)
  5. Deer everywhere!
  6. Monarch butterflies!


“American Deer,” Anthony Devis, 18th Century

Cover to “Grendel Tales: The Devil’s Apprentice” #2, Matt Wagner, 1997

Dark Horse Comics.

Nurse Your Favorite Heresies in Whispers