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I don’t even remember taking this photo.

And it isn’t well composed at all.

But it’s still interesting, because there’s a lot going on here.

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Night Train!!

No, I’m not talking about the truly abominable malt liquor.

I’m talking about an actual night train in Roanoke, Virginia.



“Night on Mill Mountain?”

I thought this Campbell Avenue storefront display was pretty cute.  What you see is a gargoyle overlooking one of those quaint ceramic villages.  (Sorry for the terrible picture … there were reflections in that glass.)

I don’t know if this diorama is an intentional reference to the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence  in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” (1940), but that’s what it makes me think of.  It would make it a really clever homemade Halloween decoration.



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I wish that you could see my sky.

It’s overcast … but with intermittent sunset-orange tints that turn it occasional shades of burning silver.

Like someone splashed thin veneers of tapered fire across a fading, opal-toned tombstone at dusk.



I am on a comic fan’s cloud nine right now.

Hey, guys — remember I told you how I just discovered that Dark Horse Comics quoted me in promoting its amazing 2019 “Grendel” series (right under Alan Moore, no less!)?

It turns out that some major entertainment news sites featured the entirety of the company’s promotional materials, so the quote was carried in tripwire magazineBroken Frontier and Pastrami Nation.

I’m still honored that I was even quoted at all, in connection with an iconic comic character that I’ve loved since I was a kid.  This is a fan’s dream!



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VADER’S ON THAT SHIP. I CAN FEEL IT.

Anyone ever notice that the top of the Taubman Museum of Art looks like a lot like an imperial star cruiser?

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Looking north to downtown Roanoke, VA, from South Jefferson Street, October 2021

I just like how all those boxlike squares juxtapose themselves with one another.

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The celebratory Big Mac.

So with a poem just published in Peeking Cat 40, that makes 10 anthologies where one of my poems or stories have appeared — plus two chapbooks on top of those.  (The first anthology would have been Dagda Publishing’s Threads eight years ago.)  When I received my copy of Peeking Cat 40 today, I promptly celebrated with MacDonald’s.  (We eat healthy at my house.)

The book is superb.  I’m thrilled to join so many talented writers from around the world in such an outstanding showcase of prose and poetry selected by Peeking Cat Literary over the past year.  Thanks once again to Editor Sam Rose!