“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.



Spillwords Press features my poem, “school shooter”

I’m so happy today to see my poem “school shooter” appear over at the pages of The Spillwords Press.  You can find it right here.

Thanks once again to Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to share my voice in this outstanding online literary magazine.



Illustration from Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” Johannnes Stradanus, 1587

Canto 8.

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Peters Creek Winterscape

Roanoke, Virginia.  (I was going through some old photos on my hard drive when I found these.)

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Nurse Your Favorite Heresies in Whispers