We’ll see how long I last this time.
What you see are arcane foodstuffs like melons, bananas, celery and carrots — drawn from the farthest reaches of the supermarket. (Any aisle not containing meat, cheese or cookies might as well be the darkest rain forest to me.)
Dark Horse Comics.
Oil on canvas.
“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
