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If only I could say no to crack.

I rise with an alarming CRACK!

Is it my knees or is it my back?

As for why my feet are raging —

these are mysteries of aging.



Just a quick reaniminder …

If you happened to enjoy my zombie story over at Spillwords Press,  it’s been nominated for Publication of the Month for September 2025.

You can vote for the story right here — just bear in mind that you must register with Spillwords Press first.



Pixabay, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cover to “Adventures Into Darkness” #10, 1953

Standard Comics.  I cannot ascertain the cover artist — it is possibly Ross Andru.

Abandoned House in Lawrence, Mississippi, 2024

Photo credit: Ktkvtsh, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

My zombie story was nominated for a Spillwords Press Award

Well, cool.  🙂

My zombie tale, “The Siege of Fort Buzzard,” was nominated for Publication of the Month for September over at Spillwords Press.  (The online magazine published the story on September 21.)

If you enjoyed the story and would like to vote for me, you may do so right here at this link.

Recall, please, that you would need to be registered to vote.  (There is no cost to do that.)  If you haven’t already registered, you can do that easily right here.

Thank you so much to all who read the story and nominated me!  🙂



Photo credit: Mobilus In Mobili, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Poetry Hall translates more of my poetry for Issue 29

I’m delighted to share here that the Poetry Hall quarterly bilingual journal once again translated my poetry for its global readership of Chinese readers.  The poems selected were “Ode to a New Black Ball Point Pen,” “Nihilist Night Haiku” and “Hardy Orchids Haiku.”

You can find Issue 29 right here over at Amazon.

Poetry Hall is a distinguished international literary magazine in which poems appear in English along with their Chinese translations, side by side.  As always, I am grateful to Editor-in-Chief Xu Yingcai and translator Zhang Ning for allowing me to showcase my work within its pages.



Landscape drawing by Jan de Bisschop, 18th Century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray, blue and green washes, over black chalk.

Roanoke rainbow.

At right is the Taubman Museum of Art.