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Cover to “Robin II” #1, Kevin Maguire & Dick Giordano, 1991

DC Comics.

Poster for “Reservoir Dogs” (1992)

Miramax.

Chandelier e-zine publishes “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves”

I’m so happy to tell you here that my poem “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves” was published today in Chandelier e-zine.

You can find it right here.

Chandelier is a superb online magazine published twice a year by Bulb Culture Collective.  It features previously published writing that reflects each issue’s theme; the Summer 2025 issue’s theme is Blazing.

I am grateful to Editors L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda for deciding that my poem, with its various depictions of burning, was a good fit.

Like a great storyteller once wrote, “It was a pleasure to burn.”  🙂



Photo of an abandoned house in Poland by Kamil Czaiński, 2021

Stare Chałupki district.

“She looked over his shoulder/ For vines and olive trees …”

She looked over his shoulder
For vines and olive trees,
Marble well-governed cities
And ships upon untamed seas,
But there on the shining metal
His hands had put instead
An artificial wilderness
And a sky like lead.

— opening lines from W. H. Auden’s “the Shield of Achilles”



Photo of Manhattan by Métneki János, 1968

Photo of New York City by John Atherton, 1967

Photo credit: John Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons