Just a reminder, guys — if you’re interested in hearing vocal talents read my poetry (or in hearing me reading the work of others) you can find all the relevant links right here:

Just a reminder, guys — if you’re interested in hearing vocal talents read my poetry (or in hearing me reading the work of others) you can find all the relevant links right here:

DC Comics (Vertigo).


Winter storms. Plague year.
February night. Dull light.
Fading Republic.

Photo credit: Helgi Halldórsson from Reykjavík, Iceland, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
I don’t know if Brigman’s photo is a reference by William Ernest Henley’s 1888 poem of the same name.

I got teased a little for eating scrambled eggs and ketchup yesterday; a couple of friends of mine opined that it was a kids’ meal.
Today I discovered that the chicken tenders I bought are in dinosaur shapes.
If the universe is trying to send me a message here, I’m not sure what it is.
Update: if you melt cheese over them they look like they’re stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits.

DC Comics.

This has been circulating on Facebook and Twitter. As always, I’ll cheerfully credit the meme-maker if am notified.

Through all of this world’s noise,
its augurs
and its clamor
and all of its iniquitous, ugly voices,
your memory is ever
a gentle refrain in my heart.

Photo credit: Takkk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Etching. From the October 1922 issue of Shadowland.
