Within the vast suburbia of Hell, Sequestered in his dingy, private cell (Which lacked a window or a padlocked door), Our reprobated hero paced his floor. Not his the gaudy blaze of punishment For those whose lives in cruelty were spent; Titans of wickedness whose earthly years Could rightly measured be in others’ tears, Whose […]
ASH IS THE QUINTESSENCE A universe of verdant tapestry Outpaces each horizon’s mammoth rim; The multitudes of lavish forestry Shall make a soul with wonder overbrim. Then beauty breathes its last as horror blooms Into a vastness of great sylvan gore, A dread arboreal expanse of tombs That usher forth a mimicry of war. Warfare […]
I see before me now a glimpse of my life in the late 1980s. I see myself as I was then: dark-eyed with a full head of brown hair; grinning like a goober; my whole body splayed out to encompass my already massive personality; clad in suspenders, a striped polo shirt, khakis, and sneakers, and […]
Which is the finer: sunrise or its setting? But that’s like asking which is prettier, The face or its reflection in a mirror? The pageantry of saffron, rose, and then Magenta hues drowns every entity On earth with the cascading, gaudy wrath Of an artistic God, and the grand sun Shall riot at each bookend […]
AURORA The sun will still excite the sky Despite the inky veil of night, Enrapturing the mortal eye With glowing tapestries of light. Apollo shuttles burning thread To weave through Earth’s magnetic loom As weft and warp cross overhead Make dancing fabrics in the gloom. The rainbow is a candle flame To this inferno in […]
The following is a letter composed to my younger self as I was ten or so years ago, in my late twenties. I was at that time, and had been for a while, a militant atheist and a wastrel squandering my potential. This letter’s aggressive tone should be considered in light of it being written […]
The sun in his solitude, glowing above, Called out to the moon, “Come hither, my love! The sky is too vacant, to share it I’m pining. We could fill all the heaven with both of our shining.” But the moon she was bashful and fled from daylight And hid in her refuge of comfort, the […]
“There is a very old saying: ‘When the pupil is ready, the master will appear.’ -Anthony Hopkins, The Mask of Zorro I’m currently in the inchoate stage of starting a business. After several attempts in the past couple of years to get back to employment and thus ween myself off disability payments (attempts which have often […]
“And thou, most kind and gentle Death, Waiting to hush our final breath,…Thou leadest home the child of God, As Christ before that way hath trod.” -from “All Creatures of Our God and King,” by St. Francis of Assisi Between the ages of twelve and thirty-one, I spent most of my days in an agonizing trek through […]
I. It was a solemn and idyllic night – A blissful bathing of the green moonlight Trickling through leaves that fluttered like applause Illumined the Arcadian delight. Wending my way throughout that midnight hour I came upon a solitary bower Whose cozy secrecy exuded sweet Effusive promises of carnal power. And there, two spirits who […]
The Empowered Loser 