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• BOOK REVIEW: Healing Mushrooms by Richard Bray

  Medicinal Mushrooms: Healing Mushrooms for Immune Support - Improve your Memory, Reduce Inflammation, and Fight Cancer by Richard Bray My rating: 4 of 5... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Matrix and Philosophy Ed. William Irwin

  The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real by William Irwin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page As might be expected of a collection of... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Clouds & Mountain Haiku

  

  I clouds enshroud mountainous monoliths faking world's end II gnarled tree growing from a crack in worn rock III waiting to fall precarious rock column stands i... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Merchants of Misinformation, Or: After the Infocalypse

  

  People were too high on pseudo-vindication to mourn the death of journalism. Each day they got a tsunami of information and information-like content that... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Ghost of Cosmos Future

  

  I've seen these fleeting glimpses of the world. They dissolve - memories of dream soon lost, and leave me longing to see raw, rich truths - the craving lies -... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Pleasure-Pain Principle Gone Awry

  

  run to pleasure - run from pain some call it the way to be sane can you feel the wind in your hair? lot of running - getting nowhere you can't catch happy -... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Macbeth by William Shakespeare

  Amazon.in page Macbeth is the tale of how a little nudge can send an ambitious man on a catastrophic and murderous course. Three witches tell Macbeth, a... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction by Stanley Wells

  Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction by Stanley Wells My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Once again, we revisit a title in my favorite source... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Frankenstein Alive, Alive! by Steve Niles

  Frankenstein Alive, Alive: The Complete Collection by Steve Niles My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This graphic novella collects four issues together... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Rainy Day Haiku

  

  I in corn country, the scent of rain often outpaced the clouds II a slanting rain, sounding machine-like pounds the ground III with these mean rains, my invite... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Monsoon Blues

  

  You won't find the Monsoon Blues in the sky - the sky - such as it is - a claustrophobic ceiling, clinging to the tops of tall bridges and buildings. Nor will... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Fond of Monsters

  

  I'm fond of monsters, modern ancient, but only monsters who know their nature. It's not the wild eyes, but those that'r vacant that signal the most dire kind... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman

  Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Project Gutenberg page This collection consists of one hundred poems crafted t... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Sympathetic Agonies

  

  From the shore, I watched a wave roll out from under a boat. It tilted as it dropped trough-ward - and bile rose in my throat. And when she hit the rock... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Temple Geometries

  

  echoed sacred geometries, resounding skyward the precision order counteract the spastic scattershot of the mind one takes it in with the intensity of a voyeur... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Mundane Magic

  

  The girl cast an incantation - and as her words bore fruit - they burned her as a witch. -Blaming the woman -Blaming her magic -Blaming a Devil, But granting... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Devil’s Face

  

  Can you see it? That which the natives call the Devil's Face? Sure, you've seen Jesus in a tortilla the potato-face Madonna, and you wrote them off as... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Stormy Shore Haiku

  

  I waves bash stone - volcanic rock walls pocked a grain at a time II crashing sounds - perfectly formed waves to sizzling foam III beach sweeping waves push... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Instantaneous Change of Fortune

  

  The muddy cotton clouds that shouted threats of rain - packed in shouldering crowds, oh, will they, won't they drain? I blinked and they had ripped, growing a... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Instantaneous Change of Fortune

  

  The muddy cotton clouds that shouted threats of rain - packed in shouldering crowds, oh, will they, won't they drain? I blinked and they had ripped, growing a... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL