"Short Answers to Hard Questions About the Opioid Crisis" : An Ekphrastic 1. Where are we? We stand atop a red heap overlooking the scribble of the first world. The chart includes both deaths from drug poisoning and those caused by drug-related mental disorders 2. What is an opioid? Something that acts on opioid receptors … Continue reading “Short Answers to Hard Questions About the Opioid Crisis” : An Ekphrasis
Month: February 2018
Poems: “Visions at 22,” “Oprah is an Augur,” “Growth”
Visions at 22 An old man in a classroom told me that sleep is a way to prepare for death in life. But I've never been good at sleeping and I prefer to dream while I walk. Perhaps that's why I failed his class, but I don't want to practice the science of dying when … Continue reading Poems: “Visions at 22,” “Oprah is an Augur,” “Growth”
Of Luchtzig and its Ghost
Nestled deep in the European Forests, somewhere between where the Šumava ends and the Böhmerwald begins exists the small city of Luchtzig. It would remain an entirely unremarkable city (known primarily for its tradition of fine furniture left by its early Bohemian-German roots) if it were not nearly destroyed in its entirety during WWII. The … Continue reading Of Luchtzig and its Ghost
Cantos of Blood & Crystal I-V: A Poem of Dark Fantasy
I. So said the hand in clutching pen, Written upon sheet upon sheet in endless scroll With trembling laid down, as the pitch of the sea Fierce rolling summoned in his ink: So began as all began Begotten storm in song. Swung the lantern below in theft of the Sun, Dawning upon the Face of we … Continue reading Cantos of Blood & Crystal I-V: A Poem of Dark Fantasy
Pen and Screen 