“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
— from J.D. Salinger’s “A Girl I Knew”
I am honored today to see The Piker Press feature “A February Walk Short Poem.”
Thanks yet again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to showcase my work within this terrific online indie lit magazine! 🙂
DC Comics. Cover A.
The Always Amazing Allison is a source of countless cool things; she most recently turned me on to Carl Orff’s 1936 cantata, Carmina Burana — named after the eponymous medieval poetry collection.
It is excellent writing music.
The “Rota Fortunae” “(Wheel of Fortune”) from the Codex Buranus, circa 1230
Dark Horse Comics.
Same area too — I live beside a … flyway or something.
I am somewhat sure it is a red-tailed hawk. It looked huge, though.
Albin, Eleazar; Derham, W., 1738
United Artists.
