Anne Sexton – A Biography – Diane Wood Middlebrook

red tranquilizers
mixed with poetry writing.
You know the ending.

Seizure of Snow

As waves pounding this shore
of unrelenting mountain, foothill and field
I am the valley reciprocate
of this white void.
 
Channel 83 tuned in to the weather
comes up with nothing
but blank stares. 
 
It is an avalanche of emotion
just opening the curtains.
 
I am ploughed swift into a vast
refrigerator with a burnt-out light bulb.
I will scream mutely for any breath
only [...]

#606

The word ‘like’ is not an adjective.

Little Children by Tom Perrotta

So after the anger-inducing, depression-mongering Anne Sexton biography, I’m taking a stab at a new author, Tom Perrotta.  The cover of this book intrigued me, albeit is a movie cover (I’m assuming since it has real people on the cover and a seal-looking thingy in the top left corner yelling “NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE”.  [...]

Gloom Cupboard…only ichiban and mustard left

Hey -o, submissions are not being picked up as readily as I would like using my sure-fire (ha) method of submitting at least three poems every weekend since the top of January this year.  Until now I’ve had one thing published.  Yes, until now.
Gloom Cupboard, issue 86, was kind enough to pick up my former sonnet called “Miles [...]

What Felony Am I?

What Felony Are You?

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You Are Arson

No doubt about it, you have a serious destructive streak. You can’t help it!
Sometimes you just get so frustrated with the world, and you have to let your aggression out
You have a notoriously bad temper. You are obsessed with getting your revenge.
You are obviously a [...]

What Office Supply Are You?

You Are a Whiteboard

You are a dreamer, a visionary, and a straight up idea person. You are very creative.
Even if the things you think up are a bit wacky, they often are brilliant.
You are an adept problem solver. You are always tossing around dozens of ideas.
You would make a good artist, designer, or [...]

While Travelling Through Nevada

I don’t have the feeling I have been here before but
I have been land before.  Cactus spine,
my seeing eyes,
a craggy of rock, my ear.
To hear that melancholy wind blow
as a ship yet unseen.  Oh water,
 
even you remember being here,
of being desert.  You mourn and wail
when the clouds are low
wanting to excavate the fish bones
 
that [...]

600 Posts – Wow!

Is 600 posts a milestone? 
I don’t really think so, but still…600!
There is really nothing interesting about the number 600 but in the year 600 (Gregorian calendar) here’s some cool things that happened:

Windmills for irrigation were invented
The Buddha sculpture begins to show up in China
Pope Gregory devises the Gregorian chant (whaddya know?)
The Earth is populated by approximately [...]

#599.5

It’s not hard to make the sun look like a star.