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“school shooter” nominated for spillwords Press Publication of the Month

Hey, gang — turns out I’ve been nominated to receive Publication of the Month from Spillwords Press for my poem, “school shooter.”

If you’re feeling so inclined, you can vote for the piece right here.




Italian Poster for “Blade Runner” (1982)

Warner Bros.

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MORE TURKEY VULTURES!!!

I found another picture of Roanoke’s truly enormous turkey vultures!!  (I’m doing that thing where you rediscover those cool old photos when you clean out your computer files.  Snow pics are coming.)



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“Street in Artvin, Armenia,” Richard Karlovich Zommer

Oil on canvas.

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Why am I not this clever?

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Illustration from Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” Gustave Dore, 1857

Canto 9, Verses 87 – 89.

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Socks to be me right now.

Oh my god — I just caught myself wearing socks with sandals.
And I was ONCE SO HIP.


[Narrator:] He was never hip.



Photo of Molbekktjernet, Norway, by Edmund Schilvold, 2009

I have a dear, wise friend whose eyes can turn any of the varying shades of blue that you see in this photo — depending on the day’s light and her day’s fortunes. 

Someday we’re going to get to see Norway.



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Photo credit: Edmund Schilvold, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Poster for “One Million Years B.C.” (1966)

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

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LOOK INWARD, NOLAN.

When you’re walking around downtown all alone and paranoid at night and some OTHER paranoid dude by himself gives you the side-eye, and you’re like, “There but for the grace of God go waaaaaaiaminute.”

Well played, universe. Well played.