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POEM: The Fair Midway [PoMo Day 29 – Symbolist]
midways announce themselves at a distance jangly music discords with organ toots arc lamp light and spastic dancing colors but i find myself there dream-style... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Mask of the Introvert [PoMo Day 28 – Confessional]
I vibrate wariness at the approach of strangers, and have a face within my Janus repertoire that is labeled: "off-putting." An approaching stranger, having... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: The Breaker Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Jeon Geuk-Jin
The Breaker Omnibus Vol 1 by Jeon Geuk-Jin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page Out: July 13, 2021 This manga combines the motifs of traditional martial arts... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: The Mazy Days of Plague-time [PoMo Day 27 – Rondeau Quatrain]
With mazy movement, I stagger through my days, my stops and starts are dull and purposeless. My stops and starts are glum and purposeless. With mazy motion, I... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: Pantomime by Christopher Seleba
Amazon.in Page Out: July 20, 2021 This is an "Ocean's Eleven"-style heist team-up story but with the notable twist of it being a group of teenagers who are... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: Lonely Receiver, Vol. 1 by Zac Thompson
Amazon.in Page When I started reading this book, my first thought was, "This is a cool premise, but I've seen it." If you've seen the 2013 movie, "Her," then... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Misinformed GPS [PoMo Day 26 – Pantoum]
In one hundred meters, turn right! In five hundred meters, U-turn! Turn left now... Recalculating. In three hundred meters, turn left! In five hundred meters,... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Counterfactual Life
Where we born with an infinity of lives at our feet -- chosen by how one steers all the forks in one's road? Or, are all those alleged forks false gods? Read more
Posted on 25 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Sun Slave [PoMo Day 25 – Aubade]
Warm light filters through the window, killing the perfect night. The gravity of bed still holds - as eyelids deny sight. And life's order would wrench me... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: The Remote Viewer, Or: Dark Cell [PoMo Day 24 – Rhyme Royal]
She was a remote viewer, so they said. They hoped she'd see beyond the bunker wall, but she'd only see where eyes were live, not dead. She saw conversing spies... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Cyborg
it's the bits of machinery that play out the chicanery the cogs that grind against the gears are devils without whims or fears only sins writ in corrupt... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: The Shepherd Dream [PoMo Day 23 – Eclogue]
I lie on the sloping hillside; damp grass tickles my neck. I hear the bleating beasts kibitz as dogs keep them in check. My eyes closed to the azure dome, unti... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Infinite City
In my dream, the city stretched out beyond what I could see. Colorful concrete pillbox roofs spread to infinity. Oh, such an infinite city must have some... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Into the Unknown
There's a block of gloomy darkness beyond the gray yonder. Since I can't see what's sitting there, I can't help but ponder whether there's solid ground... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Floating in the Nowhere [PoMo Day 21 – Narrative]
In the lunatic asylum, it's quiet after the meds round. R's mind was in the madhouse, but his body was in a lifeboat, or maybe vice versa, he couldn't tell... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Immune Intelligence [PoMo Day 20 – Rondeau Triolet]
Antibodies tell other from I. A thing my brain can't always do. To unbid guests they're never shy -- antibodies fight other not I. If It seems odd, they'll... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: Henry IV, Part 2 William Shakespeare
Amazon.in Page This continuation of the story of the reign of Henry IV, like the preceding part, is really the story of Prince Hal, the rapscallion who will be... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
BOOK REVIEW: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in Page Whenever someone spouts the platitude, "the original is always better... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: Kathmandu [PoMo Day 19 – Acrostic]
Keeper of arcane secrets A land of great escapes Temple-hopping hotspot Hash-haggling hippie hive Mystical mo-mo madness Ancient trade bazar Never knew Empire... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL -
POEM: The Falling
I am not the fallen, but the falling -- he who never hit the ground. And you may hope to know my call, but I was never there at all. I was sitting on the... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL